"I've never really written anything like that before.....I don't sing songs which hope people will die, but I couldn't help it in this one. The song is sort of striking out, a reaction to the last straw, a feeling of what CAN you do? The rage (which is as much anguish as it is anger) is a way of catharsis, a way of getting temporary relief from the heavy feeling of impotence that affects many who cannot understand a civilization which juggles it's own means for oblivion and calls that performance an act toward peace."- Bob Dylan circa 1963 (at the age of 22)