Through early morning fog I see
visions of the things to be
the pains that are withheld for me
I realize and I can see...
that suicide is painless
it brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.
I try to find a way to make
all our little joys relate
without that ever-present hate
but now I know that it's too late, and...
The game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway
The losing card I'll someday lay
so this is all I have to say.
The only way to win is cheat
And lay it down before I'm beat
and to another give my seat
for that's the only painless feat.
The sword of time will pierce our skins
It doesn't hurt when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger...watch it grin, but...
A brave man once requested me
to answer questions that are key
is it to be or not to be
'Cause suicide is painless
it brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.
...and you can do the same thing if you please.
When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful, a miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.
And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily, joyfully, playfully watching me.
But then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical.
And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.
There are times when all the world's asleep,
the questions run too deep for such a simple man.
Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned I know it sounds absurd
but please tell me who I am.
Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal.
Won't you sign up your name, we'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable!
At night, when all the world's asleep,
the questions run so deep for such a simple man.
Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned I know it sounds absurd
but please tell me who I am.
"There must be some kind of way out of here"
Said the joker to the thief.
"Theres too much confusion, I cant get no relief,
businessman they drink my wine, plow men 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 you and I we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now,
The hours getting late"...
Hey
Hey
All along the watchtower, Princes kept the view,
While all the women came and went, bare-foot servants too.
Outside in the cold distance, a wild cat did growl,
two riders were approaching and the wind began to howl...
Hey
Oh
All along the watchtower...
Hear you sing around the watch...
Gotta beware, gotta beware I will.
Yeah
All along the watchtower...
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