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Bob Dylan - 50th Anniversary Collection: 1964 - It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
50th Anniversary Collection: 1964
Disc 1
01. The Times They Are A‐Changin’
02. Talking World War III Blues
03. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
04. A Hard Rain’s A‐Gonna Fall
05. Restless Farewell
06. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
07. Bob and Eric Blues #1
08. Black Betty
09. Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies
10. Florida Woman
11. Johnny Cuckoo
Disc 2
01. Money Honey
02. More and More
03. Mr. Tambourine Man
04. Suzie Q
05. Harmonica Duet
06. Glory Glory
07. Dr. Stangelove Blues
08. Stoned on the Mountain
09. Stoned on the Mountain
10. Walkin’ Down the Line
11. Joshua Gone Barbados
12. With God on Our Side
13. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Disc 3
01. The Times They Are A‐Changin’
02. Girl From the North Country
03. Who Killed Davey Moore?
04. Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues
05. Ballad of Hollis Brown
06. It Ain’t Me, Babe
07. Walls of Red Wing
08. Chimes of Freedom
09. Mr. Tambourine Man
10. Eternal Circle
Disc 4
01. A Hard Rain’s A‐Gonna Fall
02. Talkin’ World War III Blues
03. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
04. Only a Pawn in Their Game
05. With God on Our Side
06. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
07. Restless Farewell
08. When the Ship Comes In
Disc 5
01. Denise
02. It Ain’t Me, Babe (take 1)
03. Spanish Harlem Incident (take 2)
04. Spanish Harlem Incident (take 3)
05. Ballad in Plain D (take 2)
06. I Don’t Believe You (take 1)
07. I Don’t Believe You (take 3)
08. Chimes of Freedom (take 1)
09. Chimes of Freedom (take 3)
10. Mr. Tambourine Man (take 1)
11. Black Crow Blues (take 1)
12. Black Crow Blues (take 2)
13. I Shall Be Free No. 10 (take 1)
14. I Shall Be Free No. 10 (take 2)
15. I Shall Be Free No. 10 (take 3)
16. I Shall Be Free No. 10 (take 4)
Disc 6
01. It Ain’t Me, Babe
02. All I Really Want to Do
03. To Ramona
04. Mama, You Been on My Mind
05. It Ain’t Me, Babe
06. With God on Our Side
07. The Times They Are A‐Changin’
08. Girl From the North Country
09. Who Killed Davey Moore?
10. Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues
11. To Ramona
12. Ballad of Hollis Brown
Disc 7
01. Chimes of Freedom
02. I Don’t Believe You
03. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
04. Mr. Tambourine Man
05. Talkin’ World War III Blues
06. A Hard Rain’s A‐Gonna Fall
07. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Disc 8
01. Only a Pawn in Their Game
02. With God on Our Side
03. It Ain’t Me, Babe
04. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
05. All I Really Want to Do
06. Gates of Eden
07. If You Gotta Go, Go Now
08. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
09. Talkin’ World War III Blues
10. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
11. Mama, You Been on My Mind
Disc 9
01. The Times They Are A‐changin’
02. Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues
03. To Ramona
04. Gates of Eden
05. If You Gotta Go, Go Now
06. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
07. Mr. Tambourine Man
08. A Hard Rain’s A‐Gonna Fall
09. Talkin’ World War III Blues
10. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade 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

An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you got to dodge
And it's alright, Ma, I can make it

Advertising signs that 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 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 really found you

A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
Insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not fergit
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 destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Do what they do just 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 they 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
Obscenity, 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'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only