A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest dark forest
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I met a young child beside a dead pony
And what did you see, my darling young one?
Where black is the color, where none is the number
I heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
And reflect from the mountain so all souls can see it
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
I met one man who was wounded in love

Oh, what did you meet, 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 heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
And what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
I met a young woman whose body was burning
And I'll tell it and speak it and think it and breathe it

I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children

I heard the sound of a thunder, that roared out a warnin'

I met a white man who walked a black dog
And who did you meet, my darling young one?
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
I heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'
And the executioner's face is always well hidden
I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin'
I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin'
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
I heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
And what'll you do now, my darling young one?
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'
I met another man who was wounded in hatred
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
And I'll know my song well before I start singin'
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters

And what did you hear, my darling young one?

Oh, what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?

And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'