Bob DylanA Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall (6:50)
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Bob Dylan – A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
"Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
And where have you been my darling young one?"
Full lyrics at MetroLyrics
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countryrebel51
National Lampoon Magazine:"Zimmer Man". CHECK IT OUT!
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countryrebel51
I can see someone like Tracy Chapman getting off on this track and having a prophecy that she shall be a folk singer, although her singing reminds me of Joan Armatrading. Let's call Tracy Chapman the Love child of Bob and Joan. Not a bad deal!
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meandmyrelative
To see through the eyes of fear is to see only what you want to see. To see through the eyes of awareness, on the other hand, sees only what is happening in the present. All that you can experience is the unknown, and you can experience it either through fear or through awareness. Over the years, Bob Dylan's lyrics have made me not only aware of the unknown but comfortable with it. "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" was one of Dylan's best songs for contracting the fear of the unknown with the awareness of the unknown; he shows many examples of people who experience the unknown through the eyes of fear while his character experiences the unknown throughout the eyes of awareness.
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dozendeadoceans
One of the best songs ever written! [3]
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LastPh3nom
One of the best songs ever written! [2]
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Sheik777
Dylan's a genius
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nomoresongs
I agree with everything said on this page, but would add that this song was the product of Bob spending all his time for years at folk clubs and listening to rambling musicians learning his trade, and that the melody comes from a very long American tradition in which political points are encompassed in very simple, but very structured forms. The power of the song comes from this incredibly freeing form, which allows you to just continue piling on the images to Kingdom come.
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DenMicke
One of the best songs ever written!
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countryrebel51
I found that if a person never had a Dylan album, "Blood on the Tracks" would be a good starter. Eventually, they can go back and forward through his catalogue and discover everything else.
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Oregon_Myst
This song still gives me chills
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AranRyan
"And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it,and reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it. Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin', but I'll know my song well before I start singin'" Man are those some powerful lyrics
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gothambill
i heard the sound of one person who said he was human
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silversurfer250
What did you see my blue-eyed son?
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oldiesfanjohn
one of Bob`s best,hands down!
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DaveBaldwin
That Hard Rain is fallin' on us all right now...the song of the poet who died in the gutter, I met a young man who was wounded in hatred, where hunger is ugly and souls are forgotten.... oh brother that man can write.
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crawlpalmetto
The intensity is just too much <3
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Shauni51
beautiful
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ducky70
bring it on bob !!!!!!!!!! brill
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PattySauce
So good, so good, sooooo good!!!!
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BlueOclock
Beautiful, and I do mean beautiful!
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