All Along the Watchtower fue escrita por Bob Dylan en 1967, famosamente interpretada por Jimi Hendrix en 1968. La canción refleja el desencanto de Dylan con los valores e instituciones convencionales, sugiriendo una búsqueda de salvación y libertad en un mundo caótico y opresivo. Dylan describió la inspiración para la canción como derivada de un sentido de urgencia y desesperación.
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"There must be some kind of way out of here," said the joker to the thief,
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"There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.
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Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
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None will level on the line nobody offered his word."
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"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
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"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
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But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
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So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."
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All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
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While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.
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Outside in the cold distance a wildcat did growl,
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Two riders were approaching, and the wind began to howl. Yeah, Yeah.