社課串燒二-Bob Dylan

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son ?
And where have you been my darling young one ?

從哪個人的誕生以後，人們所操縱的工具已超越他們理解；精密的原子模型，醫院核子共振儀，也許我們知道那是什麼，但有誰可以像是早晨起床為狗倒飼料般輕易的與之共事呢？當生活漸漸不只用身體的感覺，開始使用腦袋的思緒，解碼、轉譯，原來世界早就是母體所控制了。

一個人所知道的太多了，受過高中教育的現代人，對於春秋戰國的孔夫子，也是個上知天文下知地理的賢人，或許要互相討教一番。冥冥之中，人類富長的長進，是算計過的？是無盡失誤的意外？也許這一切也不重要。

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.

能有什麼作為呢？世界是怎麼溝通的？這麼些不同的人，一直製造問題，解決問題，彷彿是這物種的宿命。別認為世界末日式審判來著，對於人類的死亡，那樣的恐懼，一個心智普通的人，要不是尋求更高層次的理由讓自我超脫，那也只不過是蜉蝣羽化湮滅。

生命總是建構在另一個隕落上，不論是意義上或者行為上。經過天授人權，文藝復興，工業革命，資訊爆炸，不論接下來是哪一個莫名的改變，都將是一場暴雨，Bob Dylan唱著︰

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, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna 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 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 takers 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.

And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son ?
And what did you hear, my darling young one ?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'
I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin'
I heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'
I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, who did you meet my blue-eyed son ?
Who did you meet, my darling young one ?
I met a young child beside a dead pony
I met a white man who walked a black dog
I met a young woman whose body was burning
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
I met one man who was wounded in love
I met another man who was wounded and hatred
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

And what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son ?
And 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 deepths of the deepest black forest
Where the people are a 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 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 songs well before I start singin'
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.




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