It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)-Bob Dylan

[00:00.28]It's Alright, Ma - Bob Dylan [00:39.63]Darkness at the break of noon, [00:41.56]Shadows even the silver spoon, [00:43.48]The handmade blade, the child's balloon, [00:45.90]Eclipses both the sun and moon, [00:47.60]To understand you know too soon, [00:49.66]There is no sense in trying.,, [00:53.33] [00:59.01]Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn, [01:00.79]Suicide remarks are torn, [01:02.50]From the fool's gold mouthpiece, [01:04.78]The hollow horn plays wasted words, [01:05.81]Proves to warn, [01:06.95]That he not busy being born, [01:08.19]Is busy dying.,, [01:10.38] [01:15.69]Temptation's page flies out the door, [01:17.63]You follow, find yourself at war, [01:19.80]Watch waterfalls of pity roar, [01:21.88]You feel to moan but unlike before, [01:23.58]You discover, [01:24.04]That you'd just be, [01:25.26]One more person crying.,, [01:28.70] [01:33.55]So don't fear if you hear, [01:37.70]A foreign sound to your ear, [01:41.85]It's alright, ma, i'm only sighing.,, [01:47.54] [01:52.34]As some warn victory, some downfall, [01:54.46]Private reasons great or small, [01:56.00]Can be seen in the eyes of those that call, [01:58.38]To make all that should be killed to crawl, [02:00.13]While others say don't hate nothing at all, [02:01.91]Except hatred.,, [02:04.44] [02:08.80]Disillusioned words like bullets bark, [02:11.12]As human gods aim for their mark, [02:12.95]Made everything from toy guns that spark, [02:14.72]To flesh-colored christs that glow in the dark, [02:16.73]It's easy to see without looking too far, [02:18.49]That not much, [02:19.25]Is really sacred.,, [02:22.74] [02:27.61]While preachers preach of evil fates, [02:29.73]Teachers teach that knowledge waits, [02:31.42]Can lead to hundred-dollar plates, [02:32.52] [02:33.36]Goodness hides behind it's gates, [02:35.09]But even the president of the united states, [02:36.90]Sometimes must have, [02:37.69]To stand naked.,, [02:42.37] [02:45.68]An' though the rules of the road have been lodged, [02:49.21]It's only people's games that you got to dodge, [02:53.75]And it's alright, ma, i can make it.,, [03:01.60] [03:04.26]Advertising signs that con you, [03:06.22]Into thinking you're the one, [03:08.04]That can do what's never been done, [03:09.74]That can win what's never been won, [03:11.85]Meantime life outside goes on, [03:13.56]All around you.,, [03:17.84] [03:18.49]You lose yourself, you reappear, [03:20.83]You suddenly find you got nothing to fear, [03:22.56]Alone you stand with nobody near, [03:24.23]When a trembling distant voice, unclear, [03:25.50] [03:26.17]Startles your sleeping ears to hear, [03:27.91]That somebody thinks, [03:28.76]They really found you.,, [03:32.63] [03:35.99]A question in your nerves is lit, [03:37.99]Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy, [03:40.17]Insure you not to quit, [03:41.31] [03:42.05]To keep it in your mind and not fergit, [03:43.90]That it is not he or she or them or it, [03:45.77]That you belong to.,, [03:47.41] [03:52.46]Although the masters make the rules, [03:56.18]For the wise men and the fools, [04:00.66]I got nothing, ma, to live up to.,, [04:05.65] [04:11.83]Old lady judges watch people in pairs, [04:14.21]Limited in ***, they dare, [04:16.03]To push fake morals, insult and stare, [04:17.95]While money doesn't talk, it swears, [04:19.90]Obscenity, who really cares propaganda, all is phony.,, [04:27.12] [04:29.93]While them that defend what they cannot see, [04:31.60]With a killer's pride, security, [04:33.52]It blows the minds most bitterly, [04:34.70] [04:35.64]For them that think death's honesty, [04:37.21]Won't fall upon them naturally, [04:39.16]Life sometimes, [04:40.06]Must get lonely.,, [04:42.49] [04:47.34]My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards, [04:50.03]False gods, i scuff, [04:51.16]At pettiness which plays so rough, [04:53.16]Walk upside-down inside handcuffs, [04:53.94] [04:55.27]Kick my legs to crash it off, [04:57.12]Say okay, i have had enough, [04:59.02]What else can you show me?,, [05:01.99] [05:07.37]And if my thought-dreams could be seen, [05:11.05]They'd probably put my head in a guillotine, [05:15.86]But it's alright, ma, it's life, and life only. [05:20.12]