He won the Nobel for his music a few years back, but didn't go to the ceremonies. The song of his that's been haunting me, that Patti Smith sang at the Nobel ceremony, is "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXn9ZKPx6CY My sense is that the highway of diamonds he describes is about our collective secularism and worship of false gods. Leonard Cohen also wrote some prophetic songs, speaking to God: "You Want It Darker" e.g. "I didn't know I had permission to murder and to maim"
Dylan wrote this?🤔. That’s encouraging!
He won the Nobel for his music a few years back, but didn't go to the ceremonies. The song of his that's been haunting me, that Patti Smith sang at the Nobel ceremony, is "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXn9ZKPx6CY My sense is that the highway of diamonds he describes is about our collective secularism and worship of false gods. Leonard Cohen also wrote some prophetic songs, speaking to God: "You Want It Darker" e.g. "I didn't know I had permission to murder and to maim"