[ti:It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)] [ar:Bob Dylan] [al:Bringing It All Back Home] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]It's Alright, Ma(I'm Only Bleeding) (I'm Only Bleeding) - Bob Dylan [00:06.58]Written by:Bob Dylan [00:13.17]Darkness at the break of noon [00:14.94]Shadows even the silver spoon [00:17.01]The handmade blade the child's balloon [00:19.47]Eclipses both the sun and moon [00:21.35]To understand you know too soon [00:23.42]There is no sense in trying [00:34.12]Pointed threats they bluff with scorn [00:36.18]Suicide remarks are torn [00:38.19]From the fools gold mouthpiece [00:39.91]The hollow horn plays wasted words [00:42.07]Proves to warn [00:42.96]That he not busy being born [00:45.09]Is busy dying [00:56.09]Temptation's page flies out the door [00:58.37]You follow find yourself at war [01:00.51]Watch waterfalls of pity roar [01:02.52]You feel to moan but unlike before [01:04.93]You discover [01:05.47]That you'd just be [01:06.35]One more person crying [01:14.93]So don't fear if you hear [01:19.17]A foreign sound to you ear [01:24.07]It's alright Ma I'm only sighing [01:44.85]As some warn victory some downfall [01:47.23]Private reasons great or small [01:49.54]Can be seen in the eyes of those that call [01:51.42]To make all that should be killed to crawl [01:53.57]While others say don't hate nothing at all [01:55.60]Except hatred [02:05.18]Disillusioned words like bullets bark [02:07.38]As human gods aim for their mark [02:09.62]Make everything from toy guns that spark [02:11.80]To flesh colored Christs that glow in the dark [02:14.22]It's easy to see without looking too far [02:16.39]That not much [02:17.10]Is really sacred [02:27.55]While preachers preach of evil fates [02:29.69]Teachers teach that knowledge waits [02:31.82]Can lead to hundred dollar plates [02:33.69]Goodness hides behind its gates [02:35.93]But even the President of the United States [02:38.35]Sometimes must have [02:39.10]To stand naked [02:48.74]An' though the rules of the road have been lodged [02:53.03]It's only people's games that you got to dodge [02:58.36]And it's alright Ma I can make it [03:11.81]Advertising signs that con you [03:14.21]Into thinking you're the one [03:15.61]That can do what's never been done [03:17.83]That can win what's never been won [03:19.79]Meantime life outside goes on [03:21.91]All around you [03:31.02]You lose yourself you reappear [03:32.95]You suddenly find you got nothing to fear [03:35.50]Alone you stand with nobody near [03:37.48]When a trembling distant voice unclear [03:39.87]Startles your sleeping ears to hear [03:41.65]That somebody thinks [03:42.40]They really found you [03:53.55]A question in your nerves is lit [03:55.43]Yet you know there is no answer fit [03:57.50]To satisfy ensure you not to quit [03:59.53]To keep it in your mind and not forget [04:01.39]That it is not he or she or them or it [04:03.64]That you belong to [04:12.26]But though the masters make the rules [04:16.51]For the wise men and the fools [04:21.40]I got nothing Ma to live up to [04:40.14]For them that must obey authority [04:42.52]That they do not respect in any degree [04:44.80]Who despise their jobs their destinies [04:47.15]Speak jealously of them that are free [04:49.23]Do what they do just to be [04:51.22]Nothing more than something [04:51.95]They invest in [04:59.46]While some on principles baptized [05:01.36]To strict party platforms ties [05:04.03]Social clubs in drag disguise [05:05.87]Outsiders they can freely criticize [05:08.18]Tell nothing except who to idolize [05:10.22]And say God bless him [05:19.93]While one who sings with his tongue on fire [05:22.32]Gargles in the rat race choir [05:24.40]Bent out of shape from society's pliers [05:26.59]Cares not to come up any higher [05:28.81]But rather get you down in the hole [05:30.32]That he's in [05:38.23]But I mean no harm nor put fault [05:42.60]On anyone that lives in a vault [05:46.97]But it's alright Ma if I can't please him [06:05.29]Old lady judges watch people in pairs [06:07.62]Limited in sex they dare [06:09.68]To push fake morals insult and stare [06:12.00]While money doesn't talk it swears [06:13.88]Obscenity who really cares [06:16.01]Propaganda all is phony [06:27.49]While them that defend what they cannot see [06:29.99]With a killer's pride security [06:32.36]It blows the minds most bitterly [06:34.43]For them that think death's honesty [06:36.44]Won't fall upon 'em naturally [06:38.50]Life sometimes [06:39.13]Must get lonely [06:47.92]My eyes collide head on with stuffed graveyards [06:51.33]False gods I scuff [06:52.95]At pettiness which plays so rough [06:55.04]Walk upside down inside handcuffs [06:57.28]Kick my legs to crash it off [06:59.10]Say okay I have had enough [07:01.05]What else can you show me [07:07.97]And if my thought dreams could be seen [07:11.95]They'd probably put my head in a guillotine [07:16.98]But it's alright Ma it's life and life only