Josh Ritter - You Don't Make it Easy Babe lyrics

Here I am, standing at your window again
Waiting for you to say go away or come in
I’m your locked door’s worst knocker
I’m your curtain’s best friend

I’m trying hard to love you
You don’t make it easy, babe
I’m trying hard to love you
I’m looking for an easy way

Your friends ask about me
You say I can be found
With the cheap romance novels with
Their spines battered down
Oh, the heart has no bones
You say so it won’t break
But the purpose of loving is
The pounding it takes

The ropes that have bound me leave
No marks by their knots
Though they’re your hair
That don’t mean I’m not caught
I know the song of the handcuffs
As they scrape across the floor
But that new thing you’ve got
I’ve got no clue what it’s for

Fortune’s rocks millstones you hang
Round my throat and a brick for my window
Weighted down with a note
I hope you find someone just
As hard as you come
In this hard world, sadly
That’s so easily done

I’m trying hard to love you
You don’t make it easy, babe
I’m trying hard to love you
There’s gotta be an easy way