[00:39.03]Darkness at the break of noon
[00:41.28]Shadows even the silver spoon
[00:43.42]The handmade blade the child's balloon
[00:45.77]Eclipses both the sun and moon To understand you know too soon
[00:49.78]There is no sense in trying
[00:58.67]Pointed threats they bluff with scorn Suicide remarks are torn
[01:02.57]From the fool's gold mouthpiece The hollow horn plays wasted words
[01:04.51]Proves to warn That he not busy being born Is busy dying
[01:15.04]Temptation's page flies out the door You follow find yourself at war
[01:19.29]Watch waterfalls of pity roar
[01:21.04]You feel to moan but unlike before You discover That you'd just be One more person crying
[01:33.25]So don't fear if you hear A foreign sound to your ear
[01:41.82]It's alright Ma I'm only sighing
[01:52.03]As some warn victory some downfall
[02:54.00]Private reasons great or small Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
[01:58.75]To make all that should be killed to crawl While others say don't hate nothing at all Except hatred
[02:08.05]Disillusioned words like bullets bark
[02:11.06]As human gods aim for their mark Made everything from toy guns that spark
[02:14.25]To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
[02:16.36]It's easy to see without looking too far That not much Is really sacred
[02:27.19]While preachers preach of evil fates
[02:29.06]Teachers teach that knowledge waits
[02:31.24]Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
[02:33.47]Goodness hides behind its gates But even the president of the Unite States
[02:45.80]Sometimes must have To stand naked An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
[02:51.19]It's only people's games that you got to dodge
[02:56.81]And it's alright Ma I can make it
[03:04.43]Advertising signs that con you Into thinking you're the one
[03:07.58]That can do what's never been done That can win what's never been won
[03:11.97]Meantime life outside goes on All around you
[03:18.11]You lose yourself you reappear
[03:20.00]You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
[03:22.21]Alone you stand with nobody near
[03:24.28]When a trembling distant voice unclear
[03:26.72]Startles your sleeping ears to hear
[03:28.09]That somebody thinks They really found you
[03:35.41]A question in your nerves is lit Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
[03:39.44]Insure you not to quit To keep it in your mind and not fergit
[03:43.08]That it is not he or she or them or it That you belong to
[03:52.12]Although the masters make the rules For the wise men and the fools
[04:00.43]I got nothing Ma to live up to
[04:11.40]Old lady judges watch people in pairs
[04:13.40]Limited in sex they dare To push fake morals insult and stare
[04:18.14]While money doesn't talk it swears Obscenity who really cares
[04:21.60]Propaganda all is phony
[04:29.10]While them that defend what they cannot see
[04:31.50]With a killer's pride security It blows the minds most bitterly
[04:35.25]For them that think death's honesty Won't fall upon them naturally Life sometimes Must get lonely
[04:47.29]My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards False gods I scuff At pettiness which plays so rough
[04:51.18]Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
[04:55.36]Kick my legs to crash it off
[04:57.02]Say okay I have had enough What else can you show me
[05:07.18]And if my thought-dreams could be seen
[05:10.30]They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
[05:15.30]But it's alright Ma it's life and life only