I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
And who did you meet, my darling young one?"
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'"
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
"And what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall"
I'll walk to the deepths of the deepest dark forest
And reflect from the mountain so all souls can see it
But I'll know my song well before I start singin'
Where hunger is ugly, where the souls are forgotten
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters"
"Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
And the executioner's face is always well hidden
I heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow"
I heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'"
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
"And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
"I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'
And what'll you do now, my darling young one?"
"I met a young child beside a dead pony
"I saw a white ladder all covered with water
"I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
"I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
"I met one man who was wounded in love
"I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin'
It's a hard rain a-gonna fall"
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
"I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I met a white man who walked a black dog
It's a hard rain a-gonna fall"
"Oh, what did you see, my blue eyed son?
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
"I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'
I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
"And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
Where black is the color, where none is the number"
I met another man who was wounded in hatred
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans"
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall"
And what did you see, my darling young one?"
And what did you hear, my darling young one?"
"Oh, what did you meet my blue-eyed son?
I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin'
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
I met a young woman whose body was burning
