neighborhood bully
Singer:bob dylan
his enemies say he's on their land
they got him outnumbered about a million to one
he got no place to escape to
he's the neighborhood bully. the neighborhood bully he just lives to survive
he's criticized and condemned for being alive
he's not supposed to fight back
he's supposed to have thick skin
he's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in
he's the neighborhood bully. the neighborhood bully been driven out of every land
he's wandered the earth an exiled man
seen his family scattered
his people hounded and torn
he's always on trial for just being born
he's the neighborhood bully. well
he knocked out a lynch mob
then he destroyed a bomb factory
the bombs were meant for him. he was supposed to feel bad
he's the neighborhood bully. well
the chances are against it
that he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him
'cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
and a licence to kill him is given out to every maniac
he's the neighborhood bully. well
he got no allies to really speak of
what he gets he must pay for
he don't get it out of love
he buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied
but no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side
he's the neighborhood bully. well
he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace
they pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease
they wouldn't hurt a fly. to hurt one they would weep
they lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep
he's the neighborhood bully. every empire that's enslaved him is gone
he's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand
he's the neighborhood bully. now his holiest books have been trampled upon
no contract that he signed was worth that what it was written on
he took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth
took sickness and disease and he turned it into health
he's the neighborhood bully. what's anybody indebted to him for?
they say. he just likes to cause war
pride and prejudice and superstition indeed
they wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed
he's the neighborhood bully. what has he done to wear so many scars?
does he change the course of rivers? does he pollute the moon and stars?