Hard Time - Michael Stanley Band

Stanley Michael

Volume 3: 1981 to 1986

Hard Time

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