Devlin ft ed sheeran watchtower instrumental

The images are of luxurious living and unnecessary poverty вЂ“ princes, women who came and went (but apparently didnвЂ™t do anything worth mentioning), contrasting withВ servants whose wages arenвЂ™t enough to buy shoes. The final four lines tell us what is wrong with life вЂ“ why it might be dismissed as a joke. вЂThe hour is getting lateвЂ™ shows the thiefвЂ™s awareness of lifeвЂ™s brevity and the need to act appropriately before the opportunity is lost. The thief characterises their previous attitude as false, suggesting that the only proper approach is to recognise true values. Seeing life as a joke will achieve nothing, but thereвЂ™s no need for them to continue being negative. been through a lot) as well as having seen through the idea that complaining is likely to be purposeful. The expression he uses is вЂweвЂ™ve been through thatвЂ™ which perhaps captures the idea of having suffered (i.e. Now, he says, they are both вЂthrough thatвЂ™, meaning presumably that they see thereвЂ™s no point in complaining вЂ“ or getting вЂexcitedвЂ™- about things being wrong. Previously it seems both he and the joker had dismissed what life had in store for them as a joke, but no longer. It could, for all we know, be the selfish attitude of the better off, rather than his own inclination, which has forced him to become a thief (see below). He may be dismissed as a thief by those who determine societyвЂ™s attitudes, but his values are in fact sound. It also, by way of contrast, emphasises the very unegalitarian attitudes of those about whom the joker is complaining. His use of the phrase вЂYou and IвЂ™, putting the joker on a level with himself, seems deliberately unpatronising. He calms the joker down and speaks вЂkindlyвЂ™ to him. Like the joker, the thief is also presented positively.

He sees that true values are going unappreciated вЂ“ and in particular that certain sections of society (вЂbusinessmenвЂ™) are benefiting at the expense of others (вЂploughmenвЂ™). Like LearвЂ™s fool, he is a wise joker, understanding the true state of the world. Nevertheless the jokerвЂ™s criticisms seem serious. In that the narrator seems to speak dismissively of the main characters in describing them as вЂthe jokerвЂ™ and вЂthe thiefвЂ™ respectively, he may be ironically representing societyвЂ™s attitudes to those who fail to accept its norms. Essentially the song is about attitudes towards corruption and privilege.

Devlin ft ed sheeran watchtower instrumental