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

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[A] Darkness at the break [E] of noon, shadows even the silver spoon,
[D] The handmaid [A] blade the child's balloon, eclipses both the sun and [C] moon,
To understand you know too soon, there is no [E] sense in trying.
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_ [A] Pointed threats they bluff with [E] scorn, suicide [G] remarks are torn,
From the fool's gold mouthpiece the [A] hollow horn,
Plays wasted words, proves [C] to warn, that he not busy being born, is busy [E] dying. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [A] Temptations page flies out the door, you [E] follow find yourself at war,
Watch waterfalls [Am] of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before,
You discover that you'd just be one more person [E] crying. _ _ _ _
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So don't fear, _ [B] if you hear, _ [E] a foreign sound [A] to your ear, _
_ _ [E] It's [B] alright Ma, I'm [E] only sighing. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [A] As some warn victory, some [E] downfall, private reasons great or [Dm] small,
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call, [A] to make all that should be killed to crawl,
[C] While others say don't hate nothing at all [E] except hatred. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [A] Disillusioned words like [G] bullets bark, as human gods aim for their mark,
Make everything from toy guns that [A] spark, to flesh colored Christ's that glow in the dark,
[C] It's easy to see without looking too far, that not much is [E] really sacred. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ While [C#m] preachers preach of evil fates, [E] teachers teach that knowledge weights,
[G] Can lead to hundred dollar [A] plates, goodness hides behind its gates,
[C] But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to [E] stand naked, _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ And know the rules of the road have been [B] lodged.
It's only [E] people's games, that you [C#m] got to dodge,
_ [E] And it's [A] alright [B] Ma, _ I [E] can make it. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [A] _ Advertising signs that [E] con you into thinking you're the [F] one,
That can do what's never been done, that can win what's never been won,
Meantime life outside goes [E] on, all around you, _ _ _ _ _ _
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[A] You lose yourself, you [E] reappear, you suddenly find you got nothing to [D] fear,
Alone you stand with nobody [A] near, when a trembling distant voice [C] unclear,
Startles your sleeping ears to hear, that somebody thinks they really [E] found you. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [A] A question in your nerves is lit, [E] yet you know there is no answer fit,
[Gm] To satisfy and assure you not [A] to quit, to keep it in your mind,
And not forget that [C] it is not he or she or them or it, [E] that you belong to. _ _ _ _
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For though the masters make [B] the rules, for [E] the wise men [A] and the fools,
_ _ [E] I [A] got nothing [B] Ma, _ [E] to live up to. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ For [A] them that must obey authority, [E] that they do not respect in any degree,
Who despise their [A] jobs, their destiny, speak jealously of them that are free,
[Am] Do what they do just to be nothing more than something [E] they invest in. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] While some on principles [E] baptise, to strict party platform ties,
Social clubs in drag [A] disguise, outsiders they can freely criticise,
[C] Tell nothing except you to idolise, and say [E] God bless him. _ _ _
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_ _ _ While [C#m] one who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir,
Bent [D] out of shape from society's [A] pliers, cares not to come up [Am] any higher,
But rather get you down in the [E] hole that he's in. _ _ _ _ _
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But I mean no harm, nor [B] put fault, _ [E] on anyone that [A] lives in a vault,
But [E] it's alright [B] Ma, _ if I [E] can't please him. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [C#m] Old lady judges watch people in [E] pairs, limited in sex they [D] dare,
To push fake morals, insult [A] and stare, while money doesn't talk it swears,
[Am] Obscenity, who really cares, propaganda all [E] is phony. _ _
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[A] While them that defend what they cannot see, [E] with a killer's pride,
Security, [D] it blows their minds most [C#m] bitterly,
For them to think death's honesty, [Am] won't fall upon them naturally,
Life sometimes must get [E] lonely. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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My eyes collide head on with [C#m] stuffed graveyards,
False goals I [E] scuff at, pettiness which plays so rough,
[D] Walk upside down inside [C#m] handcuffs, kick my legs to crash it off,
[C] Say, okay I've had enough, what else can you [E] show me? _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ And if my thought dreams could be [B] seen,
_ They'd probably [E] put my head in [A] a guillotine.
[E] But it's [C#m] [B] alright Ma, _ it's life and [E] life only. _ _ _ _ _
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