Its Alright Ma I'm Only Bleeding

Intro/End of Verses e|-0-0---0-0--2--0---0-0-----------------------------------------------------| B|-1-1---1-1--3--1---1-1-----------------------------------------------------| G|-2-2---0-0--2--0---2-2-----------------------------------------------------| D|-2-2---2-2--0--2---2-2-----------------------------------------------------| A|-0-0---3-3--0--3---0-0-----------------------------------------------------| E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| G|-------5-5--7-7--5---------------------------------------------------------| D|-7-7---5-5--7-7--5--7-7----------------------------------------------------| A|-x-x----------------x-x----------------------------------------------------| E|-5-5----------------5-5----------------------------------------------------| 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 that there is no sense in trying. x4 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. x4 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 x4 So don't fear if you hear a foreign sound to your ear It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing. x4 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 x4 Disillusioned words like bullets bark As human gods aim for their mark Make 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 x4 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 x4 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 x4 Repeat for the rest of the song.