<Li> "Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance" </Li> <Li> "I Shall Be Free" </Li> <P> "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" is a song written by Bob Dylan in the summer of 1962 and recorded later that year for his second album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan . Its lyrical structure is thematically complex and modeled after the question and answer form of traditional ballads such as "Lord Randall". </P> <P> The song is characterized by dark symbolist imagery and a message communicating injustice, suffering, pollution, and warfare . Dylan has stated that all of the lyrics were taken from the initial lines of songs that "he thought he would never have time to write ." Nat Hentoff quoted Dylan as saying that he immediately wrote the song in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis, although in his memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, Dylan attributed his inspiration to the feeling he got when reading microfiche newspapers in the New York Public Library: </P>

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