A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

I heard the sound of thunder that roared out a warning
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
I've stumbled on the side twelve misty mountains
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
I'm goin' back out 'fore the rain starts fallin'
And it's a hard, hard, hard, hard
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden
Who did you meet, my darling young one?

I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
Been out in front of a dozen dead oceans

And it's a hard
Heard one person starve, many people laughin'

And what did you hear, my blue eyed son?
And it's a hard
And it's a hard
But I know my song well before I start singing
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
I've been ten thousand miles in mouth of a graveyard
And it's a hard
And what did you see, my blue eyed son?

What did you see, my darling, young one?

I saw a room full of men with their hammers a bleedin'
And it's a hard
And it's a hard

And it's a hard
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
And it's a hard
A white ladder all covered with water
Where black is the color and none is the number

Walk to depths of the deepest black forest
And it's a hard
I saw a newborn baby with white wolves all around it

Walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
And it's a hard
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
Where people are many and their hands are all empty
And reflect it from the mountains so all souls can see it
Oh, who you did meet, my blue eyed son?

And it's a hard
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a blazin'

I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken

Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
What did you hear, my darling young one
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
Then I'll stand in the ocean until I start sinking
It's a hard
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'

And it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
And it's a hard
And it's a hard
Where the pellets of poison are flooding waters