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 "All Along the Watchtower" 

            is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan from his eighth studio album,...

 The song's lyrics, which in its original version contain twelve lines, feature a conversation between a joker and a thief.

Among the many interpretations, the cynic in me squares off with this one ..

Journalist David Stubbs interpreted the song as "obliquely allud[ing] to Bob Dylan's frustrations with his management and with CBS, whom he felt were offering him a royalty rate that was far from commensurate with his status".^[25] For Stubbs, the song "features a stand-off between the 'joker' and the 'thief', with the joker complaining of businessmen who drink his wine, feeding off him but refusing to give him his due".

All long the Watch Tower