[ti:Hard Love]
[ar:Tony Rice]
[al:Me And My Guitar]
[offset:0]
[00:00.00]Hard Love - Tony Rice
[00:07.53]Well  I remember growing up
[00:09.47]Like it was only yesterday
[00:13.29]Mom and Daddy tried their
[00:15.44]Best to guide me on my way
[00:18.57]But the hard times and the
[00:20.56]Liquor drove the easy love away
[00:24.21]And the only love
[00:25.65]I knew about was hard love
[00:32.83]Well  it was hard love
[00:35.55]Every hour of the day
[00:38.05]When Christmas to my birthday
[00:40.72]Was a million miles away
[00:43.70]And the fear that came between
[00:45.85]Them drove the tears into my play
[00:49.23]There was love in daddy's
[00:50.88]House but it was hard love
[00:57.74]Well  I recall the gentle courtesy
[01:00.61]You showed me as I tried
[01:03.27]To dissemble in politeness all
[01:06.54]The love I felt inside
[01:09.00]And for every song of laughter
[01:11.56]There was another song that cried
[01:14.52]This ain't no easy weekend
[01:17.24]This is hard love
[01:23.18]Well  it was hard love
[01:25.86]Every step of the way
[01:28.82]Hard to be so close to
[01:30.85]You and hard to turn away
[01:34.24]And when all the stars and
[01:35.94]Sentimental songs dissolved the day
[01:39.95]There was nothing left to
[01:41.52]Sing about but hard love
[01:57.68]So I love you for your courage
[02:00.44]And your gentle sense of shame
[02:02.86]I love you for your laughter
[02:05.86]And your language and your name
[02:08.50]Though I knew it was impossible
[02:11.26]But I love you just the same
[02:13.95]Though the only love I gave
[02:16.03]To you was hard love
[02:22.37]Well  it was hard love
[02:24.89]It was hard on you  I know
[02:27.75]When the only love I gave
[02:29.86]To you was love I couldn't show
[02:33.08]You forgave the heart that loved you
[02:35.80]As your lover turned to go
[02:38.65]Leaving nothing but the
[02:40.10]Memory of hard love
[02:57.50]Now I'm standing in this phone
[02:59.53]Booth with a dollar and a dime
[03:03.12]Wondering what to say to you
[03:05.68]To ease your troubled mind
[03:08.24]For the Lord's Cross might redeem
[03:10.89]Us but our own just waste our time
[03:13.93]And to tell the two apart
[03:16.12]Is always hard love
[03:22.34]So I'll tell you that I love you
[03:25.22]Even though I'm far away
[03:27.67]I'll tell you how you've changed me
[03:30.57]As I live from day to day
[03:33.34]How you've helped me to accept
[03:35.54]Myself and I won't forget to say
[03:38.69]Love is never wasted even
[03:41.49]When it's hard love
[03:46.76]Well  it's hard love but
[03:50.22]It's love all the same
[03:52.94]Not the stuff of fantasy
[03:55.65]But more than just a game
[03:58.32]And the only kind of miracle
[04:01.11]That's worthy of the name
[04:03.67]For the love that heals our
[04:05.45]Lives is mostly hard love