[ti:It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)] [ar:Caetano Veloso] [al:A Foreign Sound] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - Caetano Veloso (卡耶塔诺.费洛索) [00:03.59]Darkness at the break of noon [00:06.32]Shadows even the silver spoon [00:08.71] [00:09.27]The handmade blade the child's balloon [00:11.77] [00:12.31]Eclipses both the sun and moon [00:14.61] [00:15.30]To understand you know too soon [00:17.64] [00:18.18]There is no sense in trying [00:20.93] [00:22.99]Pointed threats they bluff with scorn [00:25.21] [00:25.84]Suicide remarks are torn [00:28.71]From the fool's gold mouthpiece the hollow horn [00:31.85]Plays wasted words proves to warn [00:34.23] [00:34.81]That he not busy being born [00:37.03]Is busy dying [00:38.94] [00:40.68]Temptation's page flies out the door [00:43.19] [00:43.85]You follow find yourself at war [00:46.12] [00:46.84]Watch waterfalls of pity roar [00:49.11] [00:49.78]You feel to moan but unlike before [00:52.05] [00:52.58]You discover that you'd just be one more person crying [00:57.09] [00:58.28]So don't fear if you hear [01:02.64] [01:04.16]A foreign sound to your ear [01:08.85] [01:11.10]It's alright Ma [01:13.60] [01:15.24]I'm only sighing [01:16.86] [01:22.25]As some warn victory some downfall [01:24.64] [01:25.24]Private reasons great or small [01:28.03]Can be seen in the eyes of those that call [01:31.02]To make all that should be killed to crawl [01:33.57] [01:34.11]While others say don't hate nothing at all except hatred [01:38.19] [01:40.10]Disillusioned words like bullets bark [01:42.56] [01:43.16]As human gods aim for their mark [01:45.48] [01:46.27]Make everything from toy guns that spark [01:48.48] [01:49.18]To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark [01:52.18]It's easy to see without looking too far [01:55.03]That not much is really sacred [01:57.64] [01:59.62]While preachers preach of evil fates [02:02.18] [02:02.92]Teachers teach that knowledge waits [02:05.15] [02:05.76]Can lead to hundred dollar plates [02:08.19] [02:08.89]Goodness hides behind it's gates [02:11.18] [02:11.73]But even the president of the United States [02:14.47]Sometimes must have to stand naked [02:17.08] [02:18.60]And though the rules of the road have been lodged [02:23.13] [02:24.20]It's only people's games that you got to dodge [02:29.23] [02:31.42]And it's alright Ma [02:33.99] [02:36.07]I can make it [02:37.19] [02:42.48]Advertising signs that con [02:44.52]You into thinking you are the one [02:47.01] [02:48.40]That can do what's never been done [02:50.32] [02:51.31]That can win what's never been won [02:53.29] [02:53.97]Meantime life outside goes on all around you [02:58.41] [03:00.50]You lose yourself you reappear [03:02.93] [03:03.66]You suddenly find you got nothing to fear [03:05.97] [03:06.62]Alone you stand with nobody near [03:09.50]When a trembling distant voice unclear [03:11.89] [03:12.69]Startles your sleeping ears to hear [03:15.45]That somebody thinks they really found you [03:18.29] [03:20.23]A question in your nerves is lit [03:22.18] [03:22.99]Yet you know there is no answer to fit [03:25.42]To satisfy insure you not to quit [03:27.67] [03:29.14]To keep it in your mind and not forget [03:31.18] [03:31.95]That it's not he or she or them [03:34.05]Or it that you belong to [03:36.19] [03:37.50]Although the masters make the rules [03:41.96] [03:43.61]For the wise men and the fools [03:48.39] [03:50.35]I got nothing Ma [03:52.84] [03:54.74]To live up to [03:55.86] [04:01.35]Old lady judges watch people in pairs [04:03.96] [04:04.57]Limited in sex they dare [04:07.43]To push fake morals insult and stare [04:10.41]While money doesn't talk it swears [04:12.61] [04:13.25]Obscenity who really cares [04:15.36] [04:15.99]Propaganda all is phony [04:18.88] [04:21.01]While them that defend what they cannot see [04:23.38] [04:23.98]With a killer's pride security [04:26.11] [04:26.85]It blows the minds most bitterly [04:29.13] [04:30.05]For them that think death's honesty [04:32.21] [04:32.76]Won't fall upon them naturally [04:34.80] [04:35.47]Life sometimes must get lonely [04:38.89] [04:40.53]My eyes collide head-on with stuffed [04:44.84]Graveyards false gods I scuff [04:47.05] [04:47.75]At pettiness which plays so rough [04:50.02] [04:50.61]Walk upside-down inside handcuffs [04:52.04] [04:52.69]Kick my legs to crash it off [04:54.89]Say"Okay I've had enough [04:56.67] [04:57.25]What else can you show me" [04:59.20] [05:00.88]And if my thought-dreams could be seen [05:05.44] [05:06.50]They'd probably put my head in a guillotine [05:11.71] [05:13.66]But it's alright Ma [05:16.29] [05:18.68]It's life and life only