Life is but a Joke

鮑勃·迪倫的經典All Along The Watchtower被眾多歌手翻唱過，其中Jimi Hendrix於1968年的版本流傳最廣，確實好，搜索時會先跳出來。

歌詞中，鮑勃·迪倫講述了小丑和小偷的超現實故事，他們分享了對這個可怕的世界的看法，從被富人拿走自然資源後的失去到以對的視角理解生活到底是什麼或真正可以是什麼。的確，這首歌似乎在告訴我們，無情的消費主義是沒有容身之地的。生命被理解為一種詩意的犧牲。時間既是我們的禮物，也是揮動斧頭準備砍我們頭的人。

There must be some kind of way outta here

Said the joker to the thief

There's too much confusion

I can't get no relief

Business men, they drink my wine

Plowmen dig my earth

None will level on the line

Nobody offered his word

Hey, hey

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, uh, but you and I, we've been through that

And this is not our fate

So let us stop talkin' falsely now

The hour's getting late, hey

Hey

All along the watchtower

Princes kept the view

While all the women came and went

Barefoot servants, too

Well, uh, outside in the cold distance

A wildcat did growl

Two riders were approaching

And the wind began to howl, hey

All along the watchtower

All along the watchtower