I've stumbled on the side
of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I've crawled
I've stepped in the middle
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
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with
with blood that kept drippin'
with their hammers a- bleedin'
I saw 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,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
I heard the sound of a thunder
that roared out a warnin'
I heard the roar of a wave
that could drown the whole world
I heard one hundred drummers
whose hands were a-blazin'
I heard ten thousand whisperin' and
I heard one person starve,
I heard many people laughin'
I heard the song of a poet
I heard the sound of a clown
And it's a hard, and it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
I met a white man who walked a black dog
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
I met one man who was wounded in love
who was wounded in hatred
And it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
'fore the rain starts a- fallin'
of the deepest dark forest
Where the people are many
and their hands are all empty
Where the pellets of poison are
Where the home in the valley meets
And the executioner's face is
where the souls are forgotten
Where black is the color,
And I'll tell it and speak it
and think it and breathe it
And reflect from the mountain
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
But I'll know my song well
And it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
