Hard Times
Yeah, I’ve been working in the back of these barrooms just for a pot where I can take me a piss
They told me this life wouldn’t be easy but they ain’t never lived like this
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Hard times hard times
If you’re feeling the way I’m feeling tell me now. If you’re felling the way I’m feeling show me how
Cause sometimes these feelings are all that we get.
Yeah, I took out my rock bottom and I replaced it with rubber floors
Now I hit it all the time and I just bounce right back for more
Hard times hard times
If you’re feeling the way I’m feeling tell me now. If you’re felling these blues I’m stealing show me how
Cause sometimes these feelings are all that we get.
Yeah I swear if this old Oldsmobile starts I’m gonna leave and just drive until it don’t
Cause I can fall asleep believing she’d follow me and wake up realizing she won’t
If anything else goes wrong here believe me you’ll be the first to know
This music is medicine and these boys are my doctors and they’re prescribing one more show
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Sometimes these feelings are all that we get
Gonna live in these moments till there’s just nothing left
and I ain’t showing signs of stopping its early yet
My momma dropped me off at the gate, I’d saved up for almost a year
The inside pocket of my jean jacket holding my stolen beer
BB machine guns and paper stars Joie Chitwood is crashing cars
It’s Friday night all week at the county fair.
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Well, the rides are put together by meth head’s but we don’t seem to mind
They’re blaring out Rock You Like a Hurricane and the ride seems to rattle in time
There’s magic in the air and the flashing lights and the half-shirts that we had on
Yeah, I fell in love for the first time when she held my hand on the Gravitron.
Yeah, I’m wandering through the 4H barns, I’m trying to tell a bull from a steer
Throwing little plastic darts at the colored balloons trying to win a Guns n Roses mirror
But I’ll use my luck hoping we get stuck on the top of the Ferris Wheel
It’s Friday night all week at the county fair.
Well, the rides are put together by meth heads but we don’t seem to mind
They’re blaring out Rock You Like a Hurricane and that Sweet Child O’ Mine
There’s magic in the air and the flashing lights and these half-shirts that we had on
I fell in love for the first time when we held hands on the Gravitron.
Tonight, they put the best of us up against the wall, up against the wall
round and round we go, round and round we go
then, all at once, it vanishes gone without a trace, where’d it go?
All that’s left for me is trash and memories
The air is getting colder, the golden rod is earning its name.
This jacket feels good on my shoulders, turning leaves, the smell of grapes
We know the snow is coming, but I ain’t a bit afraid
The woodpile’s high and the stove is running
Seasons are meant to change
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Cozy up. Come and sit with me by the fire tonight
And hold my hand like you did when we were young
Let the flames in the fireplace do the dancing tonight
And let Willie sing the songs that are needin’ sung
You and I like crocuses pushing up through frozen ground
There’s no way it can keep on snowin’. Your smile melts me, keeps me knowin’ there’s better days
comin’ ‘round
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Let the mercury fall down
Let the mercury fall
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Look at that Norway spruce it must be 30 feet high
They say my daddy planted it when he was just 5
Look at that magnolia you remember planting it with me?
How’d it get so fast from a sapling to a tree?
This back yard used to be my whole world
Now it’s just something that I have to mow
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Where does the time go?
Where does the time go?
Where does the time go?
When you’re not looking
Would you look at him on that stage when did he become a man?
18 years in a heartbeat was never part of the plan
And look at that smile, boy he reminds me of you
Holding on for dear life was the only thing we could do
This baby used to be my whole world
Now it’s just someone that I barely know
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My Nanie used to tell me
You can always count on family
Then I wake up one day and see
My whole family’s now counting on me
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