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'There must be some 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, plowman dig my earth, |
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None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.' |
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'No need to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, |
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'There are many here among us who think that life is but a joke. |
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But you and I, we've been through that, and that 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 distance a wildcat did growl, |
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Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl. |