To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross.

There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.

I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him.

I don't need your organization, I've moved your mountains and I've marked you cards, but Eden is burning. You better get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage of the changing of the guard.

I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.

God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.

God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.

The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier critique into the religious frames that would become more prominent as time went on.

Abe said, where do you want this killing done? God said, out on highway 61.