IT'S ALRIGHT MA (complete):
"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 if you hear /
A foreign sound to your ear /
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing./
As some warn victory, some downfall /
Private reasons great or small /
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call /
To make all that should be killed to crawl /
While others say don't hate nothing at all /
Except hatred. /
Disillusioned words like bullets bark /
As human gods aim for their mark /
Made everything from toy guns that spark /
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark /
It's easy to see without looking too far /
That not much /
Is really sacred. /
While preachers preach of evil fates /
Teachers teach that knowledge waits /
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates /
Goodness hides behind its gates /
But even the president of the United States /
Sometimes must have
To stand naked. /
An' though the rules of the road have been lodged /
It's only people's games that you got to dodge /
And it's alright, Ma, I can make it. /
Advertising signs that con you /
Into thinking you're the one /
That can do what's never been done /
That can win what's never been won /
Meantime life outside goes on /
All around you. /
You lose yourself, you reappear /
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear /
Alone you stand with nobody near /
When a trembling distant voice, unclear /
Startles your sleeping ears to hear /
That somebody thinks /
They really found you. /
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 fergit /
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 /
Cultivate their flowers to be /
Nothing more than something /
They invest in. /
While some on principles baptized /
To strict party platform ties /
Social clubs in drag disguise /
Outsiders they can freely criticize /
Tell nothing except who to idolize /
And then say God bless him. /
While one who sings with his tongue on fire /
Gargles in the rat race choir /
Bent out of shape from society's pliers /
Cares not to come up any higher /
But rather get you down in the hole /
That he's in. /
But I mean no harm nor put fault /
On anyone that lives in a vault /
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him. /
Old lady judges watch people in pairs /
Limited in sex, they dare /
To push fake morals, insult and stare /
While money doesn't talk, it swears /
Obscenity, who really cares /
Propaganda, all is phony. /
While them that defend what they cannot see /
With a killer's pride, security /
It blows the minds most bitterly /
For them that think death's honesty /
Won't fall upon them naturally /
Life sometimes /
Must get lonely. /
My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards
False gods, I scuff /
At pettiness which plays so rough /
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs /
Kick my legs to crash it off /
Say okay, I have had enough /
What else can you show me? /
And if my thought-dreams could be seen /
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine /
But it's a
