June Tabor - Hard Love lyrics
[June Tabor - Hard Love lyrics]
I remember growing up like
It was only yesterday
Mom and Daddy tried best to
Guide me on my way
But the hard times and the liquor
Drove the easy love away
And only love I knew about was hard love
It was hard love, every hour of the day
When Christmas to my birthday was
A million years away
And the fear that came between them
Drove the tears into my play
There was love in Daddy's house
But it was hard love
And I recall the gentle courtesy you
Gave me as I tried
To dissemble in politeness all the
Love I felt inside
And for every song of laughter
Was another song that cried
This ain't no easy week-end
This is hard love
It was hard love, every step of the way
Hard to be so close to you
So hard to turn away
And when all the stars and
Sentimental songs dissolved today
There was nothing left to sing
About but hard love
So I loved you for your courage
And your gentle sense of shame
And I loved you for your laughter
And your language and your name
And I knew it was impossible
But I loved you just the same
Though the only love I gave
To you was hard love
It was hard love, it was hard on you I know
When the only love I gave to
You was love I couldn't show
You forgave the heart that loved you
As your lover turned to go
Leaving nothing but the memory of hard love
So I'm standing in this phone booth
With a dollar and a dime
Wondering what to say to you
To ease your troubled mind
For the Lord's cross might redeem us
But our own just wastes our time
And to tell the two apart is always hard
Love
So I'll tell you that I love
You even though I'm far away
And I'll tell you how you change me
As I live from day to day
How you help me to accept myself
And I won't forget to say
Love is never wasted
Even when it's hard love
Yes it's hard love, but it'slove all the same
Not the stuff of fantasy but
More than just a game
And the only kind of miracle
That'worthy of the name
For the love that heals our
Lives is mostly hard love
It was only yesterday
Mom and Daddy tried best to
Guide me on my way
But the hard times and the liquor
Drove the easy love away
And only love I knew about was hard love
It was hard love, every hour of the day
When Christmas to my birthday was
A million years away
And the fear that came between them
Drove the tears into my play
There was love in Daddy's house
But it was hard love
And I recall the gentle courtesy you
Gave me as I tried
To dissemble in politeness all the
Love I felt inside
And for every song of laughter
Was another song that cried
This ain't no easy week-end
This is hard love
It was hard love, every step of the way
Hard to be so close to you
So hard to turn away
And when all the stars and
Sentimental songs dissolved today
There was nothing left to sing
About but hard love
So I loved you for your courage
And your gentle sense of shame
And I loved you for your laughter
And your language and your name
And I knew it was impossible
But I loved you just the same
Though the only love I gave
To you was hard love
It was hard love, it was hard on you I know
When the only love I gave to
You was love I couldn't show
You forgave the heart that loved you
As your lover turned to go
Leaving nothing but the memory of hard love
So I'm standing in this phone booth
With a dollar and a dime
Wondering what to say to you
To ease your troubled mind
For the Lord's cross might redeem us
But our own just wastes our time
And to tell the two apart is always hard
Love
So I'll tell you that I love
You even though I'm far away
And I'll tell you how you change me
As I live from day to day
How you help me to accept myself
And I won't forget to say
Love is never wasted
Even when it's hard love
Yes it's hard love, but it'slove all the same
Not the stuff of fantasy but
More than just a game
And the only kind of miracle
That'worthy of the name
For the love that heals our
Lives is mostly hard love