It's Alright, Ma(I'm Only Bleeding) (Live at Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY - October 1964)-Bob Dylan

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[00:00.00]It's Alright, Ma(I'm Only Bleeding) (Live at Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY - October 1964) - Bob Dylan
[00:19.06]Darkness at the break of noon
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[00:21.20]Shadows even the silver spoon
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[00:23.89]The handmade blade the child's balloon
[00:26.85]Eclipses both the sun and moon
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[00:29.20]To understand you know too soon
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[00:31.73]There is no sense in trying
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[00:59.59]Pointed threats they bluff with scorn
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[01:02.52]Suicide remarks are torn
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[01:05.40]From the fool's gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
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[01:08.80]Plays wasted words proves to warn
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[01:11.82]That he not busy being born is busy dying
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[01:27.14]Temptation's page flies out the door
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[01:29.94]You follow find yourself at war
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[01:32.82]Watch waterfalls of pity roar
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[01:35.57]You feel to moan but unlike before
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[01:38.69]You discover that you'd just be one more
[01:41.67]Person crying
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[01:51.15]So don't fear if you hear
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[01:55.52]A foreign sound to your ear
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[02:01.58]It's alright Ma I'm only sighing
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[02:19.93]As some warn victory some downfall
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[02:22.90]Private reasons great or small
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[02:25.39]Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
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[02:28.49]To make all that should be killed to crawl
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[02:31.39]While others say don't hate nothing at all
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[02:34.32]Except hatred
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[03:03.19]Disillusioned words like bullets bark
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[03:05.85]As human gods aim for their mark
[03:08.94]Make everything from toy guns that spark
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[03:12.05]To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
[03:15.15]It's easy to see without looking too far
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[03:17.73]That not much is really sacred
[03:19.21]
[03:29.50]While preachers preach of evil fates
[03:32.11]Teachers teach that knowledge waits
[03:34.68]Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
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[03:37.37]Goodness hides behind its gates
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[03:39.75]But even the president of the United States
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[03:42.72]Sometimes must have to stand naked
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[03:57.08]An' though the rules of the road
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[03:59.28]Have been lodged
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[04:01.71]It's only people's games
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[04:04.46]That you got to dodge
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[04:07.08]And it's alright Ma
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[04:11.04]I can make it
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[04:22.12]Advertising signs they con
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[04:24.55]You into thinking you're the one
[04:26.94]That can do what's never been done
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[04:29.53]That can win what's never been won
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[04:31.88]Meantime life outside goes on
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[04:34.16]All around you
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[04:44.04]You lose yourself you reappear
[04:45.36]You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
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[04:49.12]Alone you stand with nobody near
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[04:51.76]When a trembling distant voice unclear
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[04:54.72]Startles your sleeping ears to hear
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[04:57.02]That somebody thinks they really found you
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[05:08.53]A question in your nerves is lit
[05:11.02]Yet you know there is no answer fit
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[05:13.32]To satisfy insure you not to quit
[05:16.47]To keep it in your mind and not forget
[05:20.36]That it is not he or she or them or it
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[05:30.91]Although the masters make the rules
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[05:34.96]For the wise men and the fools
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[05:40.29]I got nothing Ma to live up to
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[05:52.76]For them that must obey authority
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[05:55.78]That they do not respect in any degree
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[05:59.23]Who despise their jobs their destinies
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[06:02.67]Speak jealously of them that are free
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[06:05.29]Cultivate their flowers to be
[06:07.98]Nothing more than something they invest in
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[06:20.70]While some on principles baptized
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[06:22.74]To strict party platform ties
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[06:26.82]Social clubs in drag disguise
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[06:29.36]Outsiders they can freely criticize
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[06:32.11]Tell nothing except who to idolize
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[06:34.60]And then say God bless him
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[06:47.07]While one who sings
[06:48.08]With his tongue on fire
[06:49.66]Gargles in the rat race choir
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[06:53.51]Bent out of shape from society's pliers
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[06:56.41]Cares not to come up any higher
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[06:58.80]But rather get you down in the hole
[07:01.16]That he's in
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[07:11.45]But I mean no harm nor put fault
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[07:19.24]On anyone that lives in a vault
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[07:22.21]But it's alright Ma
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[07:27.11]If I can't please him
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[07:34.42]Old lady judges watch people in pairs
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[07:37.52]Limited in sex they dare
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[07:39.92]To push fake morals insult and stare
[07:41.92]While money doesn't talk it swears
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[07:45.69]Obscenity who really cares
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[07:47.86]Propaganda all is phony
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[07:59.12]While them that defend
[08:00.52]What they cannot see
[08:01.80]With a killer's pride security
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[08:04.63]It blows the minds most bitterly
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[08:07.06]For them that think death's honesty
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[08:09.73]Won't fall upon them naturally
[08:12.09]Life sometimes must get lonely
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[08:22.66]My eyes collide head-on with stuffed
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[08:26.04]Graveyards false gods I scuff
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[08:28.63]At pettiness which plays so rough
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[08:31.32]Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
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[08:34.50]Kick my legs to crash it off
[08:36.76]Say okay I have had enough
[08:38.80]What else can you show me
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[08:45.13]And if my thought-dreams could be seen
[08:49.73]They'd probably
[08:50.58]Put my head in a guillotine
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[08:55.09]But it's alright Ma
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[08:58.12]It's life and life only