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