A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall-Edie Brickell & New Bohemians

[ti:A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall] [ar:Edie Brickell & New Bohemians] [al:Born On The Fourth Of July (Soundtrack)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.74]A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians [00:04.19] [00:09.27]Oh where have you been my blue-eyed son [00:12.65] [00:15.81]Oh where have you been my darling young one [00:20.06] [00:22.55]I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains [00:27.68]I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways [00:31.84] [00:32.51]I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests [00:36.69] [00:37.38]I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans [00:41.65] [00:42.49]I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard [00:46.83] [00:47.56]And it's a hard and it's a hard it's a hard and it's a hard [00:55.24]And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall [01:00.46] [01:03.58]And what did you hear my blue-eyed son [01:07.23] [01:10.05]And what did you hear my darling young one [01:13.97] [01:16.76]I heard the sound of a thunder it roared out a warnin' [01:20.97] [01:21.81]Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world [01:25.55] [01:26.52]Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin' [01:30.52] [01:31.35]Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin' [01:35.08] [01:36.13]Heard one person starve I heard many people laughin' [01:41.00]Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter [01:45.06] [01:45.70]Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley [01:49.76] [01:50.38]And it's a hard and it's a hard it's a hard it's a hard [01:57.92]And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall [02:03.64] [02:06.39]Oh who did you meet my blue-eyed son [02:10.06] [02:12.49]Who did you meet my darling young one [02:17.42] [02:19.03]I met a young child beside a dead pony [02:24.10]I met a white man who walked a black dog [02:28.19] [02:28.94]I met a young woman whose body was burning [02:33.17] [02:34.08]I met a young girl she gave me a rainbow [02:38.48]I met one man who was wounded in love [02:42.67] [02:43.21]I met another man who was wounded with hatred [02:48.02]And it's a hard it's a hard it's a hard it's a hard [02:55.51]It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall [03:01.87] [03:03.61]Oh what'll you do now my blue-eyed son [03:06.97] [03:10.14]Oh what'll you do now my darling young one [03:14.29] [03:16.86]I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin' [03:21.71] [03:23.69]I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest [03:28.23] [03:30.49]Where the people are many and their hands are all empty [03:35.14] [03:37.29]Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters [03:41.87] [03:43.81]Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison [03:48.26] [03:50.38]Where the executioner's face is always well hidden [03:55.03] [03:57.18]Where hunger is ugly where souls are forgotten [04:01.54] [04:03.77]Where black is the color where none is the number [04:08.68] [04:10.36]And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it [04:14.77] [04:17.10]And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it [04:21.83] [04:23.99]Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin' [04:28.39] [04:30.97]But I'll know my song well before I start singin' [04:35.85] [04:37.76]And it's a hard it's a hard it's a hard it's a hard [04:45.14]It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall