Its Alright Ma I'm Only Bleeding

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


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


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Temptation's page flies out the door 
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You follow, find yourself at war 
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Watch waterfalls of pity roar 
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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 
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Private reasons great or small 
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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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While others say don't hate nothing at all except hatred 


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Disillusioned words like bullets bark 
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As human gods aim for their mark 
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Make everything from toy guns that spark 
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To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark 
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It's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred 


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While preachers preach of evil fates 
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Teachers teach that knowledge waits 
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Can lead to hundred-dollar plates 
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Goodness hides behind its gates 
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But even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked 


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An' though the rules of the road have been lodged 
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It's only people's games that you got to dodge 
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And it's alright, Ma, I can make it 


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Repeat for the rest of the song.