It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
[D]Darkness at the break of noon
[A]Shadows even the silver spoon
The [G]handmade blade, the child's balloon
[D]Eclipses both the sun and moon
To [Dm]understand you know too soon
There is no sense in [A]trying[C]
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[Verse 2]
[D]Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
[A]Suicide remarks are torn
From the [G]fool's gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays [D]wasted words
Proves to warn that [Dm]he not busy being born
Is busy [A]dying[C]
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[Verse 3]
Temp[D]tation's page flies out the door
You [A]follow, find yourself at war
Watch [G]waterfalls of pity roar
You [D]feel to moan but unlike before
You dis[Dm]cover that you'd just be
One more person [A]crying[C]
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[Chorus 1]
So don't [A]fear if you [E]hear
A [A]foreign sound to your [D]ear
[A]It's [E]al [D]right, [E]Ma,
I'm only [A]sighing
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[Verse 4]
As some [D]warn victory, some downfall
[A]Private reasons great or small
Can be [G]seen in the eyes of those that call
To make [D]all that should be killed to crawl
While others [Dm]say don't hate nothing at all
Except ha[A]tred[C]
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[Verse 5]
Disil[D]lusioned words like bullets bark
As [A]human gods aim for their mark
Made [G]everything from toy guns that spark
To [D]flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
[Dm]It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sa[A]cred[C]
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[Verse 6]
While [D]preachers preach of evil fates
[A]Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can [G]lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness [D]hides behind its gates
But even the [Dm]president of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand [A]naked[C]
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[Chorus 2]
An' though the [A]rules of the road
have been [E]lodged
It's only people's [A]games
that you got to [D]dodge
And [A]it's [E]al [D]right, [E]Ma, I can [A]make it
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[Verse 7]
[D]Advertising signs that con [A]you
Into thinking you're the one
[G]That can do what's never been done
[D]That can win what's never been won
[Dm]Meantime life outside goes on
All a[A]round [C]you
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[Verse 8]
You [D]lose yourself, you reappear
You [A]suddenly find you got nothing to fear
[G]Alone you stand with nobody near
When a [D]trembling distant voice, unclear
[Dm]Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks
they really found [A]you[C]
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[Verse 9]
A [D]question in your nerves is lit
Yet you [A]know there is
no answer fit to [G]satisfy
Insure you not to quit
To keep it [D]in your mind and not fergit
That it is [Dm]not he or she or them or it
That you [A]belong [C]to
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[Chorus 3]
Although the [A]masters make the [E]rules
For the [A]wise men and the [D]fools
[A]I g[E]ot n[D]othing, M[E]a, to live u[A]p t[C]o
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[Verse 10]
For them [D]that must obey authority
That they [A]do not respect in any degree
Who [G]despise their jobs, their destinies
[D]Speak jealously of them that are free
[Dm]Do what they do just to be
nothing more than something
they [A]invest [C]in
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[Verse 11]
While some [D]on principles baptized
[A]To strict party platform ties
[G]Social clubs in drag disguise
[D]Outsiders they can freely criticize
[Dm]Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God [A]bless [C]him
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[Verse 12]
While one [D]who sings with his tongue on fire
[A]Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent [G]out of shape from society's pliers
[D]Cares not to come up any higher
But [Dm]rather get you down
in the hole that [A]he's [C]in
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[Chorus 4]
But I mean no [A]harm nor put [E]fault
On [A]anyone that lives in a [D]vault
But [A]it's [E]al [D]right, [E]Ma, if I can't [A]please him
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[Verse 13]
Old [D]lady judges watch people in pairs
[A]Limited in sex, they dare
To push [G]fake morals, insult and stare
While [D]money doesn't talk, it swears
[Dm]Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is
[A]phony[C][A][C]
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[Verse 14]
While them [D]that defend what they cannot see
With a [A]killer's pride, security
It [G]blows the minds most bitterly
For [D]them that think death's honesty
Won't [Dm]fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes must get [A]lonely[C][A][C]
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[Verse 15]
My [A]eyes collide head-on
with stuffed [D]graveyards
False gods, I scuff
At [A]pettiness which plays so rough
Walk [G]upside-down inside handcuffs
[D]Kick my legs to crash it off
Say [Dm]okay I have had enough
What else can you show [A]me[C]
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[Chorus 5]
And if my [A]thought-dreams could be [E]seen
They'd probably put my [A]head in a [D]guillotine
But [A]it's [E]al [D]right, [E]Ma, it's life, and life on[A]ly
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