High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "It`s Alright, Ma (I`m Only Bleeding)" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan and first released on his 1965 album, Bringing It All Back Home. It was written in the summer of 1964, first performed live on October 10, 1964, and recorded on January 15, 1965. Described by Dylan biographer Howard Sounes as a "grim masterpiece," the song features some of Dylan`s most memorable lyrical images. Among the well-known lines sung in the song are "Money doesn`t talk, it swears," "Although the masters make the rules, for the wisemen and the fools" and "But even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked." The lyrics express Dylan`s anger at hypocrisy, commercialism, consumerism, warmongers and contemporary American culture, but unlike his earlier protest songs, "It`s Alright, Ma (I`m Only Bleeding)" does not express optimism in the possibility of political solutions.