Hard Time lyrics

from `You Can`t Fight Fashion`, 1983, EMI-America Records Group


This ain`t no Casablanca...
this ain`t no black & white
Everybody`s armed and dangerous--
someone`s gonna buy it tonight...

And what about the dream
they said would save you?
Oh, Lord--tell it to
the guys who fought the war...

--`Cause you know they`re doin`


(CHORUS:)
...Hard time
Hard time
It ain`t the way that they told us about it--
it ain`t that way anymore...
They`re doin`
...hard time
Hard time
It`s a history of us--the friends and the lovers--
the ones that the good times are for
...Hard time



Me, I`ve got my moments...
You, you`ve had your fill
This`d be one dead cowboy--
baby, if looks could kill...

And walkin` away just
ain`t that romantic...
Oh, Lord--and ain`t that
what we came here for?...

--But now we`re doin`

(CHORUS:)
...Hard time
Hard time
It ain`t the way that they told us about it--
it ain`t that way anymore...
We`re doin`
...hard time
Hard time
It`s a history of us--the friends and the lovers--
the ones that the good times are for
...Hard time

(REPEAT CHORUS)


Hard time...
Hard time...
Hard time




--words & music by Michael Stanley