I can't sleep and for whatever reason "All Along the Watchtower" has been stuck in my head and I decided to to do a little research. I came across this critique of it,
"That whole artistic mystique is one of the great traps of this business, because down that road lies unintelligibility. Dylan has a lot to answer for there, because after a while he discovered that he could get away with anything—he was Bob Dylan and people would take whatever he wrote on faith. So he could do something like "All Along the Watchtower," which is simply a mistake from the title on down: a watchtower is not a road or a wall, and you can't go along it"
Here is the thing, it is the fact that Dylan can get away with anything that makes me love his work so much. Not only does he know he can get away with anything he plays with that and with his fans. He is the Trickster Poet.
I can't think of many lines of written word that evoked my imagination more than, "There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief"
I've been writing. Maybe I'll share some eventually.
