Bob Dylan - changing of the guards

가사는 전쟁과 사랑, 고통과 희망이 얽힌 복잡한 상황을 묘사한다
주인공은 여러 갈등 속에서 사랑을 갈망하며, 상실을 통해 치유의 과정을 걸어간다
인간의 감정과 사회적 요소들이 얽히며, 그들의 진실한 마음을 드러내는 여정을 나타낸다

Sixteen years, sixteen banners united over the fields
Where the good shepherd grieves
Desperate men, desperate women divided
Spreading their wings 'neath falling leaves
Fortune calls, I stepped forth from the shadows to the marketplace
Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down
She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born
On Midsummer's Eve near the tower
The cold-blooded moon, the captain waits above the celebration
Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid
Whose ebony face is beyond communication
The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid
They shaved her head, she was torn between Jupiter and Apollo
A messenger arrived with a black nightingale
I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow
Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil
I stumbled to my feet, I rode past destruction in the ditches
With the stitches still mending 'neath a heart-shaped tattoo
Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you