Hard to Make It Lyrics

CAPO: 3rd Fret
INTRO: D
Lonesome stranger, won't you share my bed
The sidewalk siren at the bus stop said
Love is a tear in a salty bay
And it's hard to make it in this world today
Love is a river, but the river run dry
And the clouds blow bitter in a bone-yard sky
Flesh dries up and it burns away
And you can't remember where your heart once lay
And it's hard to make it in this world today
Dandy Don, he's a velvet hand
He's my silent partner, he's the inside man
Holds me shaking through the shotgun dawn
And he keeps me walking down this road I'm on
Keeps me running when he calls my name
He shines the light, but he kills the flame
Stones me simple when I try to speak
And he bruise my face, but he kiss my cheek
And it's hard to make it when you get this weak
INSTRUMENTAL: D G D G D Asus2 D (2x)
One of these mornings, gonna spread my wings
Like a red-ass robin at the gates of spring
Rise up singing on a cyclone wind
'Til the walls of this city come tumbling in
Walls of this city come tumbling, rumbling
'Round my head like an old man stumbling
I don't care if the mountains fall
There's a little blue egg in the middle of this all
And it's hard to make it when you feel so small
Bus pulled up and I climbed inside
I sat in the window and I waved goodbye
She stood staring at the blue machine
Singing, "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen"
Nobody cares and nobody knows
Only weeds remember where your headstone grows
And it's dust to ashes and wings to clay
And I check my wallet as we pull away
'Cause it's hard to make it in this world today