A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
And what did you hear, my blue eyed son?

I heard the sound of thunder that roared out a warning

Oh, who you did meet, my blue eyed son?
Heard one person starve, many people laughin'

And what did you see, my blue eyed son?

I saw a room full of men with their hammers a bleedin'
And it's a hard
Walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
What did you see, my darling, young one?
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
And it's a hard, hard, hard, hard
And it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

I've stumbled on the side twelve misty mountains
A white ladder all covered with water
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
I saw a newborn baby with white wolves all around it
And it's a hard
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
I'm goin' back out 'fore the rain starts fallin'

What did you hear, my darling young one
And it's a hard

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

I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'

And it's a hard
And it's a hard
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
And it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
And it's a hard
And it's a hard
Where the pellets of poison are flooding waters
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a blazin'
Where people are many and their hands are all empty
Where black is the color and none is the number
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
It's a hard
And it's a hard
Been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
And it's a hard

And it's a hard

And it's a hard
Then I'll stand in the ocean until I start sinking
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden
But I know my song well before I start singing

I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
And reflect it from the mountains so all souls can see it

And it's a hard
Walk to depths of the deepest black forest
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
Stepped in the middle of seven sad forests