[00:06.940]Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
[00:13.705]Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
[00:20.469]I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
[00:26.983]I’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways,
[00:33.498]I’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests,
[00:40.259]I’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans,
[00:46.774]I’ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard,
[00:53.792]And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard,
[01:00.809]And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.
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[01:11.587]Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
[01:18.097]Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
[01:24.862]I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it,
[01:31.626]I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it,
[01:39.145]I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin’,
[01:44.907]I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin’,
[01:51.673]I saw a white ladder all covered with water,
[01:58.453]I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
[02:05.215]I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,
[02:10.224]And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard,
[02:17.490]And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.
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[02:28.512]And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
[02:34.775]And what did you hear, my darling young one?
[02:41.540]I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin’,
[02:48.805]Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world,
[02:55.321]Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin’,
[03:02.081]Heard ten thousand whisperin’ and nobody listenin’,
[03:08.344]Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin’,
[03:15.112]Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter,
[03:21.874]Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley,
[03:26.639]And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard,
[03:34.156]And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.
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[03:44.678]Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
[03:49.939]Who did you meet, my darling young one?
[03:57.205]I met a young child beside a dead pony,
[04:04.221]I met a white man who walked a black dog,
[04:11.486]I met a young woman whose body was burning,
[04:17.752]I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow,
[04:24.261]I met one man who was wounded in love,
[04:31.278]I met another man who was wounded with hatred,
[04:36.038]And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard,
[04:44.649]It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.
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[04:57.927]Oh, what’ll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
[05:04.193]Oh, what’ll you do now, my darling young one?
[05:11.211]I’m a-goin’ back out ’fore the rain starts a-fallin’,
[05:18.473]I’ll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest,
[05:24.486]Where the people are many and their hands are all empty,
[05:31.252]Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters,
[05:38.017]Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison,
[05:44.533]Where the executioner’s face is always well hidden,
[05:51.299]Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten,
[05:58.065]Where black is the color, where none is the number,
[06:04.575]And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it,
[06:10.837]And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it,
[06:17.854]Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’,
[06:24.117]But I’ll know my song well before I start singin’,
[06:29.381]And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard,
[06:48.417]It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.