All Along The Watchtower lyrics

For our times. Too much freakin war. The joker and the theif represent our leaders who know that they 'are in it'. Knee deep. We have those princes who should be watching for danger and protecting the weak. Then the bad news.

The meaning of this song means that no one is paying attention. Bob dylan is the joker and the thief is god who takes us away from planet earth, the businessmen and plowmen are representations of the people who produce his songs and the rest of the people who listen to his music are clueless to his message and no not of it's worth and just confusion to the point were he feels it's pointless and feels as if life is but a joke because no one understands, the watch tower is the place where all who try and see what is happening in this crazy world and make sense out of it and life comes and goes and life passes and continues on and in the distance trouble will come again and again as time goes on and the two riders approaching are the riders of truth and in the truth can bring fear and the wind began to howl. If you try and look up the lyrics to this song you will find everyone has screwed up the words, again no one is paying attention.

Its just a collage connecting two liners,forming a canvas of imagery,with the meaning left to the interpreter.and it flows beautifully.on my peter scale,it gets a "woody"

Maybe him and his band are waiting for the record deal to come through?