(All Along the) Watchtower (Acoustic)

"There must be some kind of way out of here"

Said the joker to the thief, yeah

"There's too much confusion (Check, check, yeah, yeah)

Mmm, I can't get no relief"

All I see jokers on my left, thieves upon my right

You'd find me in the middle if I picked a different life

Before my name started tripling in size

But I'm still showing signs all attributed to mine

In the pitch black, it's too cold

I'm all alone, take me back to the roads I had to roam to get here and I'll hitch back

Get a cab to my mother's house, see my old man and grab a six pack

Tell my brother I love him

And give him something that will see him through the hard times

What's a brother for?

When I'm sick of this life I see

It has to be my family who lift me off the floor

And make sense of all the madness in a world full of money

Full of tears, full of war

Yes, I was a plowman and worked from the earth up

Save your wine for the entrepreneurs

All along the watchtower

Princes kept the view (Princes kept the view)

While all the women came and left (Yeah, yeah)

Barefooted servants too, yeah

Outside in the cold distance (Outside in the cold)

A wildcat did growl (Check)

Two riders were approaching (Two riders, two riders)

And the wind begins to howl, oh

Pour more blood in your cup

Take a sip full of sin and let your taste buds savoir the buzz

The flavor of an ill-mannered nature

That lingers on as animals in all of us

Trying to fight for the right to live a life

But some will never win though, that's why they live a lie

And I don't think I'll ever win, all of this is anything

When I die I hope a lover's at my side

There's no trap door or get out clause

The world can be your oyster or a set of jail doors

You've seen mine, I think it's time I see yours

I bet you that we've been scarred by the same swords

So we're not so unalike

Apart from the fact I live my life in the light and now I'm trapped in it

The way I feel within a few years time

I might just have a couple kids and then forget I ever wrote lyrics

All along the watchtower (All along the watchtower)

Princes kept the view (Princes kept the view)

While all the women came and left (Ladies came and they left)

Barefooted servants too, yeah (Yeah, yeah)

Outside in the cold distance (Outside in the cold)

A wildcat did growl (Yeah)

Two riders were approaching (Two riders)

And the wind begins to howl, oh

Take away the treasure of a man

Convinced that he holds heaven in his hands

Even though I ain't religious I'm a little superstitious

Maybe there is a promised land

But will I make it or not's a different matter

'Cause I've been a joker, I've been a thief, I've been a rapper

I've been the only enemy that I could never beat

Give me a piece of mind upon a platinum platter

All along the watchtower (All along the watchtower)

Princes kept the view (No-no, no-no, no-no, no)

While all the women came and left (Ladies came and they left)

Barefooted servants too, yeah

Outside in the cold distance (Outside in the cold)

A wildcat did growl (Yes it did now)

Two riders were approaching (Two riders, too many riders)

And the wind begins to howl, oh (To everybody in the place right now)

Yeah, oh no

Hey, oh no, no