A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

And reflect from the mountain so all souls can see it
I met another man who was wounded with hatred
Where black is the color, and none is the number
And what did you hear, my blue eyed son?
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children

I heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways

I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I met a young woman whose body was burning
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?

And it's hard, it's hard, it's hard, it's hard
Well, I'm a goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a fallin'
I met a white man who walked a black dog
I heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'
I met a young child beside a dead pony
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world

Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?

And it's hard, it's hard, it's hard, it's hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
And who did you meet, my blue eyed son?

But I'll know my song well before I start singin'
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty

And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it

I heard the sound of a thunder, is it roared out a warnin'
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
I met one man who was wounded in love
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a bleedin'
Well, I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Oh, what did you see, my blue eyed son?
And it's hard, and it's hard, it's hard, it's hard
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans

I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'

And it's hard, and it's hard, it's hard, and it's hard
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow

Oh, who did you meet, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a blazin'
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

And it's hard, and it's hard, it's hard, it's hard
I heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
Oh, what'll you do now, my blue eyed son?