Darkness at the break of noon   Shadows even the silver spoon   The hand made 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      And though the rules of the road have been lodged   It's only people's games that you gotta dodge   And It's Alright Ma, I can make it      Advertising signs that con   You into thinking your 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 yougot 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 ensure you not to quit   To keep it in your mind and not forget   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 destinys   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 thay 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   Obscentity, 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's probably put my head in a guillotine   But It's Alright Ma, it's life and life only