I never saw myself as a folk singer.
On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.
I hurt easy, I just don't show it. You can hurt someone and not even know it.
The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.
In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.
The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier critique into the religious frames that would become more prominent as time went on.