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