A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

And where have you been my darling young one "
"I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans"
"I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And it's a hard  it's a hard  it's a hard  it's a hard
It's a hard rain a-gonna fall"
"Oh  what did you see  my blue eyed son
And what did you see  my darling young one "
"I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'"
"I saw a white ladder all covered with water
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
And it's a hard  it's a hard  it's a hard  and it's a hard
It's a hard rain a-gonna fall"
"And what did you hear  my blue-eyed son
And what did you hear  my darling young one "
"I heard the sound of a thunder  it roared out a warnin'
I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin'
I heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'"
"I heard one person starve  I heard many people laughin'
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
I heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
And it's a hard  it's a hard  it's a hard  it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall"
"Oh  what did you meet my blue-eyed son
And who did you meet  my darling young one "
"I met a young child beside a dead pony
I met a white man who walked a black dog
I met a young woman whose body was burning
I met a young girl  she gave me a rainbow"
"I met one man who was wounded in love
I met another man who was wounded in hatred
And it's a hard  it's a hard  it's a hard  it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall"
"And what'll you do now  my blue-eyed son
And what'll you do now  my darling young one "
"I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin'
I'll walk to the deepths of the deepest dark forest
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters"
"Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
And the executioner's face is always well hidden
Where hunger is ugly  where the souls are forgotten
Where black is the color  where none is the number"
"And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
And reflect from the mountain so all souls can see it
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
But I'll know my song well before I start singin'
And it's a hard  it's a hard  it's a hard  and it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall"