♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Darkness at the break of noon, shadows even the silver spoon A 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 ♪ ♪ As pointed threats they bluff with scorn, the 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 ♪ ♪ Temptations page cries out the door, you follow find yourself in war Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel the 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 in 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 Make everything from toy guns that spark, to flesh colored cries 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 ♪ Though the rules of the road have been lodged It's only people's games that you've got to dodge And it's alright Ma, I can make it ♪ ♪ ♪ Advertising signs they 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've 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've really found you ♪ ♪ A question in your eyes is lit, yet you know there is no answer fit To satisfy and assure 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 ♪ ♪ Though the masters make the rules for the wise men And the fools, I got nothing more to live up to ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ For them that must bow down to authority that they do not respect in any degree Who despise their jobs, their destiny, speak jealously of them that are free Cultivate what they do to be nothing more than something they invest in ♪ ♪ While some on principles baptize to strict party platform ties Social clubs in drag disguise, outsiders they freely criticize Tell nothing's kept you to idolize and 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 plies, cares not to come up any higher But rather get you down in the hole that he's in ♪ But I mean no harm, no put fault on anyone living in a vault But it's all right, Ma, if I can't please him ♪ ♪ Old lady judges watch people in pairs, limited in *** they dare To tell 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 their 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 goals I scuff it Pettiness which plays so rough, walk upside down inside handcuffs Kick my legs to crash it off, say, all right, I've 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 all right, Ma, it's life and life only ♪ ♪