Yes, this was written and released before Bob Dylan was 22, so this was well before Jakob was born, and I do think it's weird, but of course Bob himself has blue eyes, so maybe he's talking to himself, or to the idea of his unborn child. (He also talks about his unborn children in Masters of War, another song off this album. I think while writing these songs he was really fearing for the future of the world.) In the liner notes of The Freewheeling Bob Dylan it says, "[Hard Rain] was written during the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 when those who allowed themselves to think of the possible results of the Kennedy-Khrushchev confrontation were chilled by the imminence of oblivion. 'Every line in it,' says Dylan, ' is actually the start of a whole song. But when I wrote it, I thought I woudln't have enough time alive to write all those songs so I put all I could into this one.'"
The line I really really don't get is "I saw a white ladder all covered with water." Does anyone know what that means?
White ladder all covered with water has also always stumped. Last night I dreamed that I was singing the song and when I woke up I visualized the white ladder (height) covered in water. I thought of climate change and the melting of the ice caps. The last line before the chorus - I'll know my songs well before I start singing - to me refers to getting facts straight before shooting off at the mouth.
Just a thought
White ladder all covered with water has also always stumped. Last night I dreamed that I was singing the song and when I woke up I visualized the white ladder (height) covered in water. I thought of climate change and the melting of the ice caps. The last line before the chorus - I'll know my songs well before I start singing - to me refers to getting facts straight before shooting off at the mouth.
Just a thought
I think that the white ladder is the way to climb up and lift the world out of the mess, but as it's covered in water, it's slippery and so we fall off over and over again.
I think that the white ladder is the way to climb up and lift the world out of the mess, but as it's covered in water, it's slippery and so we fall off over and over again.
Yes, this was written and released before Bob Dylan was 22, so this was well before Jakob was born, and I do think it's weird, but of course Bob himself has blue eyes, so maybe he's talking to himself, or to the idea of his unborn child. (He also talks about his unborn children in Masters of War, another song off this album. I think while writing these songs he was really fearing for the future of the world.) In the liner notes of The Freewheeling Bob Dylan it says, "[Hard Rain] was written during the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 when those who allowed themselves to think of the possible results of the Kennedy-Khrushchev confrontation were chilled by the imminence of oblivion. 'Every line in it,' says Dylan, ' is actually the start of a whole song. But when I wrote it, I thought I woudln't have enough time alive to write all those songs so I put all I could into this one.'"
The line I really really don't get is "I saw a white ladder all covered with water." Does anyone know what that means?
White ladder all covered with water has also always stumped. Last night I dreamed that I was singing the song and when I woke up I visualized the white ladder (height) covered in water. I thought of climate change and the melting of the ice caps. The last line before the chorus - I'll know my songs well before I start singing - to me refers to getting facts straight before shooting off at the mouth. Just a thought
White ladder all covered with water has also always stumped. Last night I dreamed that I was singing the song and when I woke up I visualized the white ladder (height) covered in water. I thought of climate change and the melting of the ice caps. The last line before the chorus - I'll know my songs well before I start singing - to me refers to getting facts straight before shooting off at the mouth. Just a thought
I think that the white ladder is the way to climb up and lift the world out of the mess, but as it's covered in water, it's slippery and so we fall off over and over again.
I think that the white ladder is the way to climb up and lift the world out of the mess, but as it's covered in water, it's slippery and so we fall off over and over again.