Neighborhood Bully - Bob Dylan
Artist : “Bob Dylan”
Song title : “Neighborhood Bully”
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The neighborhood bully
He's just one man
His enemies say he's on their land
They got him outnumbered about a million to one
He got no place to escape to
No place to run
He's the neighborhood bully
The neighborhood bully he just lives to survive
He's critcized 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
He was criticized
Old women condemned him
Said he should apologize
Then he destroyed a bomb factory
Nobody was glad
The bombs were meant for him he was supposed to feel bad
He's the neighborhood bully
Well
The chances are against it
And the odds are slim
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
Now
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
Egypt and rome
Even the great babylon
He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand
In bed with nobody
Under no one's command
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?
Nothing
They say he just likes to cause war
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed
They wait for this bully like a dog waits for 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?
Neighborhood bully
Standing on the hill
Running out the clock
Time standing still
Neighborhod bully