A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall

Oh, where have you been, my blue eyed son?

Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?

I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains

I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways

I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests

I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans

I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard

And it's hard, and it's hard

And it's hard, and it's hard

It's a hard rain's gonna fall

Oh, what did you see, my blue eyed son?

Oh, what did you see, my darlin' young one?

I saw a newborn babe

With wild wolves all around it

I saw a highway of diamonds

With nobody on it

I saw a black branch

With blood that kept drippin'

I saw a room full of men

With their hammers bleedin'

I saw ten thousand talkers

Whose tongues were all broken

I saw guns and sharp swords

In the hands of young children

And it's hard, and it's hard

And it's hard, and it's hard

It's a hard rain's gonna fall

And what did you hear, my blue eyed son?

And what did you hear, my darling young one?

I heard the sound of a thunder

As it roared out a warning

I heard the roar of a wave

That could drown the whole world

I heard one hundred drummers

Whose hands were blazin'

I heard ten thousand whisperin'

And nobody listenin'

I heard one person starve

I heard many people laughin'

I heard the song of a poet

Who died in the gutter

I heard the sound of a clown

Who cried in the alley

And it's hard, and it's hard

And it's hard, and it's hard

It's a hard rain's gonna fall

And who did you meet, my blue eyed son?

Oh, who did you meet, my darling young one?

I met a young child

Beside a dead pony

I met a white man

Who walked a black dog

I met a young woman

Whose body was burning

I met a young girl

She gave me a rainbow

I met one man

Who was wounded in love

I met another man

Who was wounded with hatred

And it's hard, and it's hard

And it's hard, and it's hard

It's a hard rain's gonna fall

Oh, what'll you do now, my blue eyed son?

Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?

Well, I'm a goin' back out

Before the rain starts falling

Well, I'll walk to the depths

Of the deepest dark forest

Where the people are many

And their hands are all empty

Where the pellets of poison

Are flooding their waters

Where the home in the valley

Meets the damp dirty prison

Where the executioner's face

Is always well hidden

Where hunger is ugly

Where souls are forgotten

Where black is the color

And none is the number

And I'll tell it and think it

And speak it and breathe it

And reflect from the mountain

So all souls can see it

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'

But I'll know my song well before I start singin'

And it's hard, and it's hard

And it's hard, and it's hard

It's a hard rain's gonna fall