You know I see the question all over your face
And I intend to drive that answer home
One of these good old days
But nothing comes easily
When I'm with you
I know you think you're special
The complicated kind
It's simple till it all gets mixed up
Somewhere in your mind
When you want to run away
And start again
You turn your back on all your friends
And take it the hard way
You gotta do it all the hard way
The hard way
Every problem's solved the hard way
When life is hard enough
Why must you make it twice as tough?
Or is it easier giving up
When you go the hard way?
You used to run around
With a guy who's twice your age
But you'd find no luxury
In his expensive birdcage
You didn't love him anyway
But he never knew
It takes so long just to tell him the truth
He went the hard way
You gotta do it all the hard way
The hard way
Every problem's solved the hard way
When life is hard enough
Why must you make it twice as tough?
Or is it easier giving up
When you go the hard way?
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When life is hard enough
Why must you make it twice as tough?
Or is it easier giving up
When you go the hard way?
You gotta do it all the hard way
The hard way
Every problem's solved the hard way
The hard way
You gotta do it all the hard way
The hard way
You gotta take it all the hard way