People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.

Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in.

On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.

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.

Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody's troubles, everybody except mine.

People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what should’ve happened, what could’ve happened. That’s its own kind of truth. It’s like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name.