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