That we are living in a world filled with clowns, are we? Yes we are….look around nah can’t look around, look into your screens.. television, cellphones and all you see is a plethora of clowns performing their act for God knows what maybe survival or a catharsis of sorts!!
And then you have the “Joker” or respectably the “Jokerman” mind it he is not one among the clowns, this one’s a piece to reckon with cause he not only laughs at you but sometimes makes you believe that he is also a clown – the one who laughs at himself, a juxtaposition of mixed heads, dual personalities and a strong will to confuse the hell out of you!
Source: Expecting Rain 
Source: The Indian Express
And Bob sang his songs so true, so relevant even today….
Jokerman
By Bob Dylan:
“Standing on the waters casting your bread
While the eyes of the idol with the iron head are glowing
Distant ships sailing into the mist
You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing
Freedom just around the corner for you
But with the truth so far off, what good will it do?
Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune
Bird fly high by the light of the moon
Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman
So swiftly the sun sets in the sky
You rise up and say goodbye to no one
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
Both of their futures, so full of dread, you don’t show one
Shedding off one more layer of skin
Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within
Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune
Bird fly high by the light of the moon
Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman
You’re a man of the mountains, you can walk on the clouds
Manipulator of crowds, you’re a dream twister
You’re going to Sodom and Gomorrah
But what do you care? Ain’t nobody there would want to marry your sister
Friend to the martyr, a friend to the woman of shame
You look into the fiery furnace, see the rich man without any name
Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune
Bird fly high by the light of the moon
Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman…..”
And we then wonder..was Dylan thinking of the worldwide commitment of the humans towards their personal and cultural claim to religion? Or is it about the violence caught up in the everyday lives of the people? Maybe he’s talking about the lies surrounding the ambition and the drives of the human race that promises to rescue them from the clutches of poverty of the material and the immaterial kind…he could be talking of all these and much more, this Dylan I say sure knows how to think and what to write to confuse our already confused souls!! Whatever be the thought or the meaning behind “The Jokerman” – they sure do rule the order of the day metaphorically not understood but literally as true as the daylight…
And that we are living in a world filled with clowns, are we? Nah actually we are the clowns laughing at ourselves believing the “Jokerman” in all his glory and laughter that he throws towards us while pretending to be laughing at himself…oh, oh, oh, Jokerman….
Source: Vox
That the Jokerman keeps dancing to the tunes of the nightingale while we continue to believe that the jokes on us but I not sometimes but often feel that I live inside a ? clown!!!
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