It's a Hard Rain A-Gonna Fall

[kentuck]

What did you see, my blue-eyed son ?
What did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a new-born baby with wild wolves all around it -
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it -
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'-
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin' -
I saw a white ladder all covered with water -
I saw ten-thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken -
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children -
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard,
and it's a hard rain a-gonna fall.

[Racenut20]

1. Fantastic song, one of the greats.

[Toots]

2. Dylan never had a bad song

I also think he was somewhat of a Prophet.

[mike_c]

3. the hard rain's still out there....

Of course, we've got more of it than anyone else....

[Minstrel Boy]

4. And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it

Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?
I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin',
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest,
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty,
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters,
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison,
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden,
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten,
Where black is the color, where none is the number,
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'.

Bob is THE man.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. For this place...

I think "The Pump don't work, cause the vandals took the handles" is a lot more appropriate. ;-)

[kentuck]

6. I saw ten-thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken -

uh-huh

[Tsiyu]

7. I Can't explain The Feeling

of hearing this song played in 2004

and recognizing the truth in it all over again