Easy Rider movie - It's Alright Ma / I'm Only Bleeding lyrics

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Song by Roger McGuinn<br /><br>

Darkness at the break of noon<br>

Shadows even the silver spoon<br>

The handmade blade, the child's balloon<br>

Eclipses both the sun and moon<br>

To understand you know too soon<br>

There is no sense in trying.<br>

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Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn<br>

Suicide remarks are torn<br>

From the fool's gold mouthpiece<br>

The hollow horn plays wasted words<br>

Proves to warn<br>

That he not busy being born<br>

Is busy dying.<br>

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Temptation's page flies out the door<br>

You follow, find yourself at war<br>

Watch waterfalls of pity roar<br>

You feel to moan but unlike before<br>

You discover<br>

That you'd just be<br>

One more person crying.<br>

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So don't fear if you hear<br>

A foreign sound to your ear<br>

It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing.<br>

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As some warn victory, some downfall<br>

Private reasons great or small<br>

Can be seen in the eyes of those that call<br>

To make all that should be killed to crawl<br>

While others say don't hate nothing at all<br>

Except hatred.<br>

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Disillusioned words like bullets bark<br>

As human gods aim for their mark<br>

Made everything from toy guns that spark<br>

To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark<br>

It's easy to see without looking too far<br>

That not much<br>

Is really sacred.<br>

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While preachers preach of evil fates<br>

Teachers teach that knowledge waits<br>

Can lead to hundred-dollar plates<br>

Goodness hides behind its gates<br>

But even the president of the United States<br>

Sometimes must have<br>

To stand naked.<br>

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An' though the rules of the road have been lodged<br>

It's only people's games that you got to dodge<br>

And it's alright, Ma, I can make it.<br>

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Advertising signs that con you<br>

Into thinking you're the one<br>

That can do what's never been done<br>

That can win what's never been won<br>

Meantime life outside goes on<br>

All around you.<br>

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You lose yourself, you reappear<br>

You suddenly find you got nothing to fear<br>

Alone you stand with nobody near<br>

When a trembling distant voice, unclear<br>

Startles your sleeping ears to hear<br>

That somebody thinks<br>

They really found you.<br>

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A question in your nerves is lit<br>

Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy<br>

Insure you not to quit<br>

To keep it in your mind and not fergit<br>

That it is not he or she or them or it<br>

That you belong to.<br>

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Although the masters make the rules<br>

For the wise men and the fools<br>

I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.<br>

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For them that must obey authority<br>

That they do not respect in any degree<br>

Who despise their jobs, their destinies<br>

Speak jealously of them that are free<br>

Cultivate their flowers to be<br>

Nothing more than something<br>

They invest in.<br>

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While some on principles baptized<br>

To strict party platform ties<br>

Social clubs in drag disguise<br>

Outsiders they can freely criticize<br>

Tell nothing except who to idolize<br>

And then say God bless him.<br>

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While one who sings with his tongue on fire<br>

Gargles in the rat race choir<br>

Bent out of shape from society's pliers<br>

Cares not to come up any higher<br>

But rather get you down in the hole<br>

That he's in.<br>

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But I mean no harm nor put fault<br>

On anyone that lives in a vault<br>

But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.<br>

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Old lady judges watch people in pairs<br>

Limited in sex, they dare<br>

To push fake morals, insult and stare<br>

While money doesn't talk, it swears<br>

Obscenity, who really cares <br>

Propaganda, all is phony.<br>

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While them that defend what they cannot see<br>

With a killer's pride, security<br>

It blows the minds most bitterly<br>

For them that think death's honesty<br>

Won't fall upon them naturally<br>

Life sometimes<br>

Must get lonely.<br>

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My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards<br>

False gods, I scuff<br>

At pettiness which plays so rough<br>

Walk upside-down inside handcuffs<br>

Kick my legs to crash it off<br>

Say okay, I have had enough<br>

What else can you show me?<br>

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And if my thought-dreams could be seen<br>

They'd probably put my head in a guillotine<br>

But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only.<br>

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[Thanks to Destiny for lyrics]<br>

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