[00:00:00] It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) (Live) - Bob Dylan [00:00:02] Written by:Bob Dylan [00:00:39] Darkness at the break of noon [00:00:41] Shadows even the silver spoon [00:00:43] The handmade blade the child's balloon [00:00:45] Eclipses both the sun and moon [00:00:47] To understand you know too soon [00:00:49] There is no sense in trying [00:00:58] Pointed threats they bluff with scorn [00:01:00] Suicide remarks are torn [00:01:02] From the fool's gold mouthpiece [00:01:03] The hollow horn [00:01:04] Plays wasted words [00:01:05] Proves to warn [00:01:06] That he not busy being born [00:01:07] Is busy dying [00:01:15] Temptation's page flies out the door [00:01:17] You follow find yourself at war [00:01:19] Watch waterfalls of pity roar [00:01:21] You feel to moan but unlike before [00:01:23] You discover that you'd just be [00:01:24] One more person crying [00:01:33] So don't fear [00:01:35] If you hear [00:01:37] A foreign sound [00:01:39] To your ear [00:01:41] It's alright Ma I'm only sighing [00:01:52] As some warn victory some downfall [00:01:54] Probably some greatest fall [00:01:55] Have a seen on the eyes [00:01:56] Livin' the call [00:01:57] To make all that should be killed to crawl [00:01:59] While others say don't hate nothing at all [00:02:01] Except hatred [00:02:08] Disillusioned words like bullets bark [00:02:10] As human Gods aim for their mark [00:02:12] Made everything from toy guns that spark [00:02:14] To flesh colored Christs that glow in the dark [00:02:16] It's easy to see without looking too far [00:02:18] That not much Is really sacred [00:02:27] While preachers preach of evil fates [00:02:29] Teachers teach that knowledge waits [00:02:31] Can lead to hundred dollar plates [00:02:33] Goodness hides behind it's gates [00:02:34] But even the president of the Unite States [00:02:36] Sometimes must have to stand naked [00:02:45] All though the rules of the road [00:02:47] Have been lodged [00:02:49] It's only people's games [00:02:50] That you got to dodge [00:02:53] Private reasons great or small [00:02:56] I can make it [00:03:03] Advertising signs that con you [00:03:06] Into thinking that you're the one [00:03:07] That can do what's never been done [00:03:09] That can win what's never been won [00:03:11] Meantime life outside goes on [00:03:13] All around you [00:03:18] You lose yourself and then you reappear [00:03:20] You suddenly find you got nothing to fear [00:03:22] Alone you stand with nobody near [00:03:24] When a trembling distant voice unclear [00:03:26] Startles your sleeping ears to hear [00:03:27] That somebody thinks [00:03:28] They really found you [00:03:35] A question in your nerves is lit [00:03:37] Yet you know that there is no answer fit [00:03:39] To satisfy insure you not to quit [00:03:41] To keep it in your mind and not fergit [00:03:43] That not he or she or them or it [00:03:45] That you belong to [00:03:51] Although the masters [00:03:54] Make the rules [00:03:55] For the wise men [00:03:57] And the fools [00:04:00] I got nothing Ma [00:04:03] To live up to [00:04:11] Old lady judges watch people in pairs [00:04:14] Limited in s*x they dare [00:04:15] To push fake morals insult and stare [00:04:17] Money doesn't talk it swears [00:04:19] Obscenity who really cares [00:04:21] Propaganda all is phony [00:04:29] While them that defend what they cannot see [00:04:31] With a killer's pride security [00:04:33] It blows the minds most bitterly [00:04:35] For them that think death's honesty [00:04:37] Won't fall upon them naturally [00:04:39] Life sometimes must get lonely [00:04:46] My eyes collide head on [00:04:48] With stuffed graveyards [00:04:49] False Gods I scuff at pettiness [00:04:51] Which plays so rough [00:04:53] Walk upside down inside handcuffs [00:04:55] Kick my legs to crash it off [00:04:56] Say alright I have had enough [00:04:58] What else can you show me [00:05:07] And if my thought dreams [00:05:09] Could be seen [00:05:10] They'd probably put my head [00:05:13] In a guillotine [00:05:15] But it's alright Ma [00:05:17] It's life and life only