You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing. - Bob Dylan

Sometimes people ask songwriters what a song means, not realizing if they had more words to explain it they would’ve used them in the song.

Yes, I received your letter yesterday
(About the time the door knob broke)
When you asked how I was doing
Was that some kind of joke?
All these people that you mention
Yes, I know them, they're quite lame
I had to rearrange their faces
And give them all another name
Right now I can't read too good
Don't send me no more letters no
Not unless you mail them
From Desolation Row

Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount,
But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.