It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) ( Bob Dylan ). Darkness at the break of. noon. Shadows even the silver. spoon. The handmade blade the. child's balloon. Eclipses both the sun and. moon. To understand you know. too soon. There is no sense in. trying.. Pointed threats they. bluff with scorn. Suicide remarks are torn. From the fool's gold. mouthpiece. The hollow horn plays. wasted words. Proves to warn. That he not busy being. born. Is busy dying.. Temptation's page flies. out the door. You follow find yourself. at war. Watch waterfalls of pity. roar. You feel to moan but. unlike before. You discover. That you'd just be. One more person crying.. So don't fear if you hear. A foreign sound to your. ear. It's alright Ma I'm. only sighing.. As some warn victory. some downfall. Private reasons great or. small. Can be seen in the eyes. of those that call. To make all that should. be killed to crawl. While others say don't. hate nothing at all. Except hatred.. Disillusioned words like. bullets bark. As human gods aim for. their mark. Made everything from toy. guns that spark. To flesh-colored Christs. that glow in the dark. It's easy to see without. looking too far. That not much. Is really sacred.. While preachers preach of. evil fates. Teachers teach that. knowledge waits. Can lead to. Goodness hides behind its. gates. But even the president of. the United States. Sometimes must have. To stand naked.. An' though the rules of. the road have been lodged. It's only people's games. that you got to dodge. And it's alright Ma I. can make it.. Advertising signs that. con you. Into thinking you're the. one. That can do what's never. been done. That can win what's never. been won. Meantime life outside. goes on. All around you.. You lose yourself you. reappear. You suddenly find you got. nothing to fear. Alone you stand with. nobody near. When a trembling distant. voice unclear. Startles your sleeping. ears to hear. That somebody thinks. They really found you.. A question in your nerves. is lit. Yet you know there is no. answer fit to satisfy. Insure you not to quit. To keep it in your mind. and not forget. That it is not he or she. or them or it. That you belong to.. Although the masters make. the rules. For the wise men and the. fools. I got nothing Ma to. live up to.. For them that must obey. authority. That they do not respect. in any degree. Who despise their jobs. their destinies. Speak jealously of them. that are free. to be. Nothing more than. something. They invest in.. While some on principles. baptized. To strict party platform. ties. Social clubs in drag. Outsiders they can freely. criticize. Tell nothing except who. to idolize. And then say God bless. him.. While one who sings with. his tongue on fire. Gargles in the rat race. choir. Bent out of shape from. society's pliers. Cares not to come up any. higher. But rather get you down. in the hole. That he's in.. But I mean no harm nor. put fault. On anyone that lives in a. vault. But it's alright Ma if. I can't please him.. Old lady judges watch. people in pairs. Limited in sex they dare. To push fake morals. insult and stare. While money doesn't talk. it swears. Obscenity who really. cares Propaganda all is. phony.. While them that defend. what they cannot see. With a killer's pride. security. It blows the minds most. bitterly. For them that think. death's honesty. Won't fall upon them. naturally. Life sometimes. Must get lonely.. My eyes collide head-on. with stuffed graveyards. False gods I scuff. At pettiness which plays. so rough. Walk upside-down inside. handcuffs. Kick my legs to crash it. off. Say okay I have had. enough. What else can you show. me?. And if my thought-dreams. could be seen. They'd probably put my. head in a guillotine. But it's alright Ma. it's life and life only.. . Copyright © 1965. Special Rider Music. [Columbia Records]