Bob Dylan: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Meaning
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Lyrics
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways,
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad...
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This song was released several weeks before the Cuban Missle Crisis and is in no way related. Dylan said in his own words that it simply means that in life bad things are going to happen.
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If you listen to the No Direction Home bootleg CD, Dylan says:
'A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall means somethings gonna happen'
It's not necessarily about nuclear warfare or the Cuban Missile Crisis, though these may have had some influence. -
This song was written by bob during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. He said that he didn't think the world was going to last much longer and wrote down all the songs he had in his head at that time. You have to block the verses into individual song meanings. This was a very scary time in history and was probably the definitive act in JFK's presidency. After the crisis ended he wrote the Bob Dylan's 115th dream as all of us felt the same sigh of relief as Dylan did at that moment in history.
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If you think of "hard rain" as rain falling as a result of atom bomb explosion, whole song makes sense.
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