Watch Towers In My Mind

This was the song that my friends had been playing around with, that I had never heard. Apparently written by Bob Dylan, it’s been preformed by Jimi Hendrix and the Dave Matthews Band as well. The acoustic version that I listened to was just amazing and I am not a real Matthews Band fan. The lyrics themselves are interesting as a just a poem, so I find it cool that written word can extend into music lyrics or just stand alone as it’s own artistic piece.

All Along the Watch-Tower

"There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief,
"There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."

"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.