Joker & The Thief

From what I heard, the lyrics of "Joker & the Thief" was influenced by "All Along the Watchtower", the famous folk song by Bob Dylan. Anyway, I do believe the song is about a man - The Joker - who is traveling through the world in search for only one thing - Pure love. The opening line where it describes him as "a wanted man" is due to that the women who have met him during his life has flocked around him like crazy, but only exploited him for their own desires, and not expressed any feelings for him. However, The Joker hasn't either showed any feelings for the women he has found, and only used them as slaves that he choose to control ("Always laughing in the midst of power"). However, he finally understood that this was a mindless, stupid way to live (The "sweet" in his heart overcame the "sour"), and so he decided to search for his eternal love, not going home until he has found her ("We are not goin' home", sung from the perspective of the band, who follows him on his travel). And I believe in SirNirian's theory about "The Thief" being the woman The Joker one day will meet, and thus, as you often say when it comes to love, steal his heart. In other words, Andrew Stockdale wrote a story about the search for true love.

The Joker is a man. The woman standing in the field of clover is a different person.

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Supposedly, the joker and the thief are the characters in Dylan's song "All Along the Watchtower".

I love this song...sounds so groovy, but yet i have no idea what half of these songs mean

Has a cool feel to it...........................

probably they're best song without disreguarding all their other good songs

Can't help but feel a strong influence by All Along the Watchtower. Sort of like the prequel to it...

Sounds like a Pink Floyd song. (please note, I love PF so this wasn't meant as a diss)

I think this is about someone (the "joker") watching over someone else (the girl in the song) and how for now he's just WATCHING, but soon he could step into her life... Maybe she's thinking about doing something (drugs, sex, stealing, lying) and the joker is a metaphor for whatever she's thinking about doing.

My initial thought was that the joker is the man and the thief of the night/the girl represents rebels/rockers. Alway's looking out for the man to try to destroy opposition. I think thats what the girl is supposed to represent in the album. At least that gives it so much meaning, but then again it could be anything.. hehe