Bob Dylan – Its Alright Ma Im Only Bleeding (Guitar Live)

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     Alright, thank you very much! 

Am
 Darkness at the break of noon

C 
 Shadows even the silver spoon

    D
The handmade blade, the child's balloon

F
Eclipses both the sun and moon

   E                                                     [ Am Am ]
To understand you know too soon that there is no sense in trying.

Am
 Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn

C
 Suicide remarks are torn

         D
From the fool’s gold mouthpiece the hollow horn

F
Plays wasted words, proves to warn

E                             [ Am Am ]
He not busy being born is busy dying.

Am
Temptation’s page flies out the door

C
You follow, find yourself at war

      D
Watch waterfalls of pity roar

    F
You feel to moan but unlike before

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You discover that you’d just be one more person crying

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So don't fear if you hear a foreign sound to your ear

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It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing.

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As some warn victory, some downfall

C
Private reasons great or small

       D
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call

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To make all that should be killed to crawl

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Others say don’t hate nothing at all except hatred

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 Disillusioned words like bullets bark

   C
As human gods aim for their mark

     D
Make everything from toy guns that spark

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To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark

     E                                                         [ Am Am ]
It’s easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred

Am
 While preachers preach of evil fates

C
 Teachers teach that knowledge waits

    D
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates

F
Goodness hides behind its gates

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Even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked

               Am                          E
An’ though the rules of the road have been lodged

              A                     D
It’s people’s games that you got to dodge

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And it’s alright, Ma, I can make it

Am
 Advertising signs they con you

C
Con you into thinking that you're the one

D
That can do what's never been done

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That can win what's never been won

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Meantime life outside goes on all around you

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You lose yourself and then you reappear

    C
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear

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Alone you stand with nobody near

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When a trembling distant voice, unclear

E                                                                        [ Am   Am ]
Startles your sleeping ears to hear that somebody thinks they really have found you

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A question in your nerves is lit

        C
Yet you know there is no answer fit

   D
To satisfy, ensure you not to quit

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Keep it in your mind and don't forget

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That it is not he or she or them or it that you belong to

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The masters make the rules

        A                D
For the wise men and the fools

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I got nothing, Ma, to live up to

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Old lady judges watch people in pairs

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 Limited in sex, they dare

   D
To push fake morals, insult and stare

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 While money doesn't talk, it swears

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Obscenity, who really cares propaganda, all is phony

      Am
While them that defend what they cannot see

       C
With a killer's pride, security

   D
It blows the minds most bitterly

    F
For them that think death's honesty

      E                                              [ Am Am ]
Won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely

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My eyes collide head-on with stuffed 

     C
Graveyards and false gods, I scoff

   D
At pettiness which plays so rough

     F
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs 

E
Kick my legs to crash it off

      E                                         [ Am Am ]
Say alright, I have had enough what else can you show me

          Am                      E
And if my thought-dreams could be seen

                A                D
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine

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But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only

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