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 out in front of
I've been ten thousand miles
in the mouth of a graveyard
and it's a hard rain gonna fall.
with wild wolves around it
I saw a highway of diamonds
with blood that kept grippin'
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 high, it's a high,
it's a high, it's a high,
I'm a -goin' back out for the rain,
of the deepest black mounds
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 barrack
meets the damn dirty prison
Where the executioner's face
where souls are forgotten
And I'll tell it, and I'll think it,
and reflect it from the mouth
And I'll stand on the ocean
And I'll know my song well
And it's a heart, it's a heart
It's a heart, it's a heart
It's a heart, it's a heart
It's a hard, it's a hard,
it's a hard rain gonna fall