It's Alright Ma

Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child’s balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying

Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool’s gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
Plays wasted words, proves to warn
That he not busy being born is busy dying

Temptation’s page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover that you’d just be one more
Person crying

So don’t fear when you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It’s alright, Ma, I’m only sighing

A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit
To satisfy, insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not forget
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to

Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to

For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Do what they do just to be
Nothing more than something they invest in

[00:18.915]Darkness at the break of noon
[00:20.608]Shadows even the silver spoon
[00:22.437]The handmade blade, the child’s balloon
[00:24.363]Eclipses both the sun and moon
[00:26.087]To understand you know too soon
[00:27.918]There is no sense in trying
[00:30.133]
[00:38.728]Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
[00:40.524]Suicide remarks are torn
[00:42.224]From the fool’s gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
[00:44.201]Plays wasted words, proves to warn
[00:46.131]That he not busy being born is busy dying
[00:49.089]
[00:57.451]Temptation’s page flies out the door
[00:59.375]You follow, find yourself at war
[01:01.245]Watch waterfalls of pity roar
[01:03.103]You feel to moan but unlike before
[01:05.049]You discover that you’d just be one more
[01:06.836]Person crying
[01:08.264]
[01:16.326]So don’t fear when you hear
[01:20.554]A foreign sound to your ear
[01:24.672]It’s alright, Ma, I’m only sighing
[01:29.075]
[01:54.973]A question in your nerves is lit
[01:56.815]Yet you know there is no answer fit
[01:58.757]To satisfy, insure you not to quit
[02:00.656]To keep it in your mind and not forget
[02:02.614]That it is not he or she or them or it
[02:04.692]That you belong to
[02:05.809]
[02:13.766]Although the masters make the rules
[02:18.203]For the wise men and the fools
[02:22.401]I got nothing, Ma, to live up to
[02:26.927]
[02:37.459]For them that must obey authority
[02:39.266]That they do not respect in any degree
[02:41.487]Who despise their jobs, their destinies
[02:43.412]Speak jealously of them that are free
[02:45.528]Do what they do just to be
[02:47.010]Nothing more than something they invest in