'I saw ten-thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken'

Excerpt from 'A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall'

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, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard,

It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Who was Bob Dylan?

American singer-songwriter, author and visual artist. His biggest songs: Blowing In The Wind and the Times They Are A-Changin actually became civil rights anthem and were used for anti-war movements.

He also released 4 critically acclaimed albums of original material the most recent being Rough and Rowdy Ways in 2020. He has published eight books of drawings and paintings; now are hanging in major galleries and has received numerous awards for his profound effect on music in American culture.

In 2016 he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature 'for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition'. This shocked quite a few literature purists who felt that it was undeserving.

Dylan did not even seem that interested by the recognition; he did not even show up at the reward ceremony; and sent a brief thank you. He eventually accepted the prize in a private ceremony in Stockholm.

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