Bob Dylan - a hard rain’s a-gonna fall [gaslight 1962]

노래는 화자가 고난과 시련을 통해 다양한 아이러니한 장면들을 경험하고, 사랑하는 이에게 그 경험을 묻는 형식으로 전개된다
'하드 레인'이라는 구절은 다가올 큰 재난이나 고통을 상징하며, 세상의 고통과 불확실성을 강조한다
이러한 이미지들은 삶의 어려움과 상처를 잘 표현하고 있다

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
And 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 forests
I’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I’ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard
It’s a hard rain’s a-going to fall
Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn 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 dripping
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleeding
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, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard
It’s a hard rain’s a-going to fall