It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.
I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages
There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.
Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.
Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.
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.