[ti:It's Alright, Ma]
[ar:Bob Dylan]
[al:Bob Dylan The 30Th Anniversary Concert Celebration]
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[00:00.28]It's Alright, Ma - Bob Dylan
[00:39.63]Darkness at the break of noon,
[00:41.56]Shadows even the silver spoon,
[00:43.48]The handmade blade, the child's balloon,
[00:45.90]Eclipses both the sun and moon,
[00:47.60]To understand you know too soon,
[00:49.66]There is no sense in trying.,,
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[00:59.01]Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn,
[01:00.79]Suicide remarks are torn,
[01:02.50]From the fool's gold mouthpiece,
[01:04.78]The hollow horn plays wasted words,
[01:05.81]Proves to warn,
[01:06.95]That he not busy being born,
[01:08.19]Is busy dying.,,
[01:10.38]
[01:15.69]Temptation's page flies out the door,
[01:17.63]You follow, find yourself at war,
[01:19.80]Watch waterfalls of pity roar,
[01:21.88]You feel to moan but unlike before,
[01:23.58]You discover,
[01:24.04]That you'd just be,
[01:25.26]One more person crying.,,
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[01:33.55]So don't fear if you hear,
[01:37.70]A foreign sound to your ear,
[01:41.85]It's alright, ma, i'm only sighing.,,
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[01:52.34]As some warn victory, some downfall,
[01:54.46]Private reasons great or small,
[01:56.00]Can be seen in the eyes of those that call,
[01:58.38]To make all that should be killed to crawl,
[02:00.13]While others say don't hate nothing at all,
[02:01.91]Except hatred.,,
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[02:08.80]Disillusioned words like bullets bark,
[02:11.12]As human gods aim for their mark,
[02:12.95]Made everything from toy guns that spark,
[02:14.72]To flesh-colored christs that glow in the dark,
[02:16.73]It's easy to see without looking too far,
[02:18.49]That not much,
[02:19.25]Is really sacred.,,
[02:22.74]
[02:27.61]While preachers preach of evil fates,
[02:29.73]Teachers teach that knowledge waits,
[02:31.42]Can lead to hundred-dollar plates,
[02:32.52]
[02:33.36]Goodness hides behind it's gates,
[02:35.09]But even the president of the united states,
[02:36.90]Sometimes must have,
[02:37.69]To stand naked.,,
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[02:45.68]An' though the rules of the road have been lodged,
[02:49.21]It's only people's games that you got to dodge,
[02:53.75]And it's alright, ma, i can make it.,,
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[03:04.26]Advertising signs that con you,
[03:06.22]Into thinking you're the one,
[03:08.04]That can do what's never been done,
[03:09.74]That can win what's never been won,
[03:11.85]Meantime life outside goes on,
[03:13.56]All around you.,,
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[03:18.49]You lose yourself, you reappear,
[03:20.83]You suddenly find you got nothing to fear,
[03:22.56]Alone you stand with nobody near,
[03:24.23]When a trembling distant voice, unclear,
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[03:26.17]Startles your sleeping ears to hear,
[03:27.91]That somebody thinks,
[03:28.76]They really found you.,,
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[03:35.99]A question in your nerves is lit,
[03:37.99]Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy,
[03:40.17]Insure you not to quit,
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[03:42.05]To keep it in your mind and not fergit,
[03:43.90]That it is not he or she or them or it,
[03:45.77]That you belong to.,,
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[03:52.46]Although the masters make the rules,
[03:56.18]For the wise men and the fools,
[04:00.66]I got nothing, ma, to live up to.,,
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[04:11.83]Old lady judges watch people in pairs,
[04:14.21]Limited in sex, they dare,
[04:16.03]To push fake morals, insult and stare,
[04:17.95]While money doesn't talk, it swears,
[04:19.90]Obscenity, who really cares propaganda, all is phony.,,
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[04:29.93]While them that defend what they cannot see,
[04:31.60]With a killer's pride, security,
[04:33.52]It blows the minds most bitterly,
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[04:35.64]For them that think death's honesty,
[04:37.21]Won't fall upon them naturally,
[04:39.16]Life sometimes,
[04:40.06]Must get lonely.,,
[04:42.49]
[04:47.34]My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards,
[04:50.03]False gods, i scuff,
[04:51.16]At pettiness which plays so rough,
[04:53.16]Walk upside-down inside handcuffs,
[04:53.94]
[04:55.27]Kick my legs to crash it off,
[04:57.12]Say okay, i have had enough,
[04:59.02]What else can you show me?,,
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[05:07.37]And if my thought-dreams could be seen,
[05:11.05]They'd probably put my head in a guillotine,
[05:15.86]But it's alright, ma, it's life, and life only.
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