One of the original Greek meanings of “apocalypse” is “revelation.” Sometimes an apocalypse can be destruction; other times it’s a revolution and a rebirth
“Dylan writes about the end of the world not because he wants to dance in the rubble, but because he knows beautiful light can come from the sunset.” source
Here we listed best Bob Dylan songs about Apocalypse
1- Bob Dylan – High Water
“This song is about environmental or economic destruction”
2- Bob Dylan – A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
““A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall,” seem to presage nuclear war”
““Talking World War III Blues” is Dylan laughing at the absurdity of the end of the world, but the blistering anger of “Hard Rain” and “Masters” are nothing short of the soundtrack to the apocalypse.” source
3- Bob Dylan – Talkin’ World War III Blues
4- Bob Dylan – Song to Woody
“Song to Woody” sets the tone for the rest of Dylan’s apocalyptic oeuvre.
“Hey, hey Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song
‘Bout a funny ol’ world that’s a-comin’ along
Seems sick and it’s hungry, it’s tired and it’s torn
It looks like it’s a-dyin’ and it’s hardly been born“
5- Bob Dylan – World Gone Wrong
6- Bob Dylan – Everything Is Broken
7- Bob Dylan – When the Ship Comes In
“The track “When the Ship Comes In” sounds downright celebratory as it imagines a post-racial society, until you realize that this society exists in the ashes of traditional Western civilization.” source
8- Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin’
9- Bob Dylan – Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
“During the mid-‘60s, as Dylan forsook folk for fock n’ roll, the bard imagined the apocalypse as a weird mash-up of Cold War terror, religious zealotry, and pop culture schizophrenia” source
10 Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
11- Bob Dylan – All Along the Watchtower
12- Bob Dylan, The Band – This Wheel’s On Fire
13- Bob Dylan – Ring Them Bells
“It feels very much like Bob Dylan is talking about what will happen at the end of days and how the revelation will enter.” source
14- Bob Dylan, The Band – This Wheel’s On Fire
“The chorus is like a dark apocalypse of a wheel being on fire or something going horribly wrong” source
15- Bob Dylan – Dirge
“This song is angry and dark, and it’s quite clear that Bob Dylan wrote this song to express sheer rage”
