It s alright ma i m only bleeding — Bob Dylan

Darkness at the break of noon

Shadows even the silver spoon

The hand made blade, the child's balloon

Eclipses both the sun and moon

To understand you know too soon

There is no sense in trying

This is played after each verse, but I think Bob just kind of improvises with it.

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 just be one more person crying.

So don't fear, if you hear, a foreign sound to your ear It's all right ma, I'm only sighing

As some warn victory, some downfall, private reasons great or small Can be seen in the eys 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 Make 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 hundred dollar plates, goodness hides behind its gates But even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked

And though the rules of the road have been lodged It's only people's games that you've got to dodge And it's allright 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've 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, ensure 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 beling to

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools I've 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 Cultivate their flowers to be nothing more than something they invest in

While unprinciples baptize too strict party platform ties Social clubs in drag disguise, outsiders they can freely criticize Tell nothing except who to idolize and 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 allright ma, if I can't please him

Old lady judges watch people in pairs, limited in sex they dare To push fake morals, insultant stares 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 mind 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 goals, I scuff At pettiness which plays so rough, walk upside down inside handcuffs Kick my legs to crash it off, say OK I've 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 allright ma, it's life and life only