Bryan Ferry - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Live at the Royal Albert Hall, 1974) lyrics

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been
My darling young one?
I've stumbled on the side of
Twelve misty mountains
Walked and I've crawled on
Six crooked highways
Stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
Been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I've been ten thousand miles in
The mouth of a graveyard

And it's a hard and it's a hard
It's a hard and it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
And what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
What did you see, my darling young one?

I saw a new-born baby with
Wild wolves around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it


I saw a black branch with
Blood that kept drippin'
I saw a room full of
Men with their hammers a-bleedin'

A white ladder all covered with water
I saw ten thousand talkers whose
Tongues were all broken
I saw guns and sharp swords in
The hands of young children

And it's a hard and it's a hard
And it's a hard, ha ha ha hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
What did you hear, my darling young one?

I heard the sound of thunder
That roared out a warnin'
Heard the roar of a wave that
Could drown the whole world
Heard one hundred drummers whose
Hands were a-blazin'
Heard ten thousand whisperin'
And nobody listenin'

Heard one person starve
I heard many people laughin' (Ha ha ha)
Heard the song of a poet
Who died in the gutter
Heard the sound of a clown
Who cried in the alley
And it's a hard and it's a hard
And it's a hard hard, hard, hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Oh, who you did meet, my blue eyed son?
Who did you meet, my darling young one?

I met a young child beside a dead pony
I met a white man who walked a black dog
I met a young woman whose body was burning
A young girl, she gave me a rainbow
I met one man who was wounded in love
Another man who was wounded with hatred
Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
What'll you do now, my darling young one?

I'm a-goin' back out 'fore
The rain starts a-fallin'
Walk to the depths of
The deepest black forest
Where the people are many and
Their hands are all empty
Where the pellets of poison
Are flooding their waters

Where the home in the valley
Meets the damp dirty prison
Where the executioner's face is
Always well hidden where hunger is ugly
Where souls are forgotten
Where black is the colour and
None is the number
And I'll tell it and think it
And speak it and breathe it
And reflect it from the mountains so
All souls can see it
Then I'll stand in the ocean
Until I start sinkin'
But, I'll know my song well
Before I start singin'

And it's a hard, it's a hard and it's a hard
Ha ha ha ha hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
And it's a hard and it's a hard
And it's a hard (Hard, Hard)
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall