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

[00:21.90]Darkness at the break of noon [00:23.88]Shadows even the silver spoon [00:25.71]The handmade blade, the child's balloon [00:27.39]Eclipses both the sun and moon [00:29.31]To understand you know too soon there is no sense in trying [00:40.47]Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn [00:42.36]Suicide remarks are torn [00:44.10]From the fool's gold mouthpiece, the hollow horn [00:45.96]Plays wasted words, proves to warn [00:47.85]That he not busy being born is busy dying [00:57.75]Temptation's page flies out the door [00:59.76]You follow, find yourself at war [01:01.59]Watch waterfalls of pity roar [01:03.51]You feel to moan but unlike before [01:05.07]You discover that you'd just be one more person crying [01:13.14]So don't fear if you hear [01:16.92]A foreign sound to your ear [01:21.33]It's alright, Ma [01:23.97]I'm only sighing [01:32.76]As some warn victory, some downfall [01:34.68]Private reasons great or small [01:36.42]Can be seen in the eyes of those that call [01:38.55]To make all that should be killed to crawl [01:40.35]While others say don't hate nothing at all, except hatred [01:50.25]Disillusioned words like bullets bark [01:52.20]As human gods aim for their mark [01:54.00]Make everything from toy guns that spark [01:56.19]To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark [01:58.35]It's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred [02:08.94]While preachers preach of evil fates [02:11.19]Teachers teach that knowledge waits [02:12.90]Can lead to hundred dollar plates [02:14.85]Goodness hides behind its gates [02:16.56]But even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked [02:29.07]And though the rules of the road have been lodged [02:32.67]It's only people's games that you got to dodge [02:36.96]And it's alright, Ma [02:39.90]I can make it [02:48.63]Advertising signs that con [02:50.49]You into thinking you're the one [02:52.32]That can do what's never been done [02:54.18]That can win what's never been won [02:55.98]Meantime, life outside goes on all around you [02:58.29]You lose yourself, you reappear [03:05.82]You suddenly find you got nothing to fear [03:07.80]Alone you stand with nobody near [03:09.51]When a trembling distant voice unclear [03:11.55]Startles your sleeping ears to hear that somebody thinks they really found you [03:20.46]A question in your nerves is lit [03:22.38]Yet you know there is no answer fit [03:24.18]To satisfy, insure you not to quit [03:26.16]To keep it in your mind and not forget [03:27.99]That it is not he or she or them or it that you belong to [03:38.04]But though the masters make the rules [03:41.91]For the wise men and the fools [03:46.08]I got nothing, Ma [03:48.66]To live up to [03:58.14]Old lady judges watch people in pairs [04:00.27]Limited in ***, they dare [04:02.07]To push fake morals, insult and stare [04:03.84]While money doesn't talk, it swears [04:05.64]Obscenity, who really cares, propaganda, all is phony [04:16.29]While them that defend what they cannot see [04:18.30]With a killer's pride, security [04:20.28]It blows their minds most bitterly [04:22.11]For them that think death's honesty [04:23.79]Won't fall upon them naturally, life sometimes must get lonely [04:32.70]My eyes collide head-on with stuffed [04:34.68]Graveyards, false goals, I scuff [04:36.51]At pettiness which plays so rough [04:38.40]Walk upside-down inside handcuffs [04:40.44]Kick my legs to crash it off [04:41.91]Say, "Okay, I've had enough, what else can you show me?" [04:50.94]And if my thought-dreams could be seen [04:54.39]They'd probably put my head in a guillotine [04:58.71]But it's alright, Ma [05:01.41]It's life, and life only