What does A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall mean?

Bob Dylan: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Meaning

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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...

  1. m320753
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    Aug 24th 2009 !⃝

    You think what you want and I think what I want we're just one too many mornings and a thousand miles behind.

  2. anonymous
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    Aug 22nd 2009 !⃝

    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.

  3. anonymous
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    May 27th 2008 !⃝

    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.

  4. m320753
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    May 8th 2008 !⃝

    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.

  5. anonymous
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    Dec 11th 2007 !⃝

    If you think of "hard rain" as rain falling as a result of atom bomb explosion, whole song makes sense.

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