Hard Love-Tony Rice

[ti:Hard Love] [ar:Tony Rice] [al:Me And My Guitar] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hard Love - Tony Rice [00:07.53]Well I remember growing up [00:09.47]Like it was only yesterday [00:13.29]Mom and Daddy tried their [00:15.44]Best to guide me on my way [00:18.57]But the hard times and the [00:20.56]Liquor drove the easy love away [00:24.21]And the only love [00:25.65]I knew about was hard love [00:30.22] [00:32.83]Well it was hard love [00:35.55]Every hour of the day [00:38.05]When Christmas to my birthday [00:40.72]Was a million miles away [00:43.70]And the fear that came between [00:45.85]Them drove the tears into my play [00:49.23]There was love in daddy's [00:50.88]House but it was hard love [00:56.03] [00:57.74]Well I recall the gentle courtesy [01:00.61]You showed me as I tried [01:03.27]To dissemble in politeness all [01:06.54]The love I felt inside [01:09.00]And for every song of laughter [01:11.56]There was another song that cried [01:14.52]This ain't no easy weekend [01:17.24]This is hard love [01:19.06] [01:23.18]Well it was hard love [01:25.86]Every step of the way [01:28.82]Hard to be so close to [01:30.85]You and hard to turn away [01:33.70] [01:34.24]And when all the stars and [01:35.94]Sentimental songs dissolved the day [01:39.95]There was nothing left to [01:41.52]Sing about but hard love [01:46.34] [01:57.68]So I love you for your courage [02:00.44]And your gentle sense of shame [02:02.86]I love you for your laughter [02:05.86]And your language and your name [02:08.50]Though I knew it was impossible [02:11.26]But I love you just the same [02:13.43] [02:13.95]Though the only love I gave [02:16.03]To you was hard love [02:19.81] [02:22.37]Well it was hard love [02:24.89]It was hard on you I know [02:27.75]When the only love I gave [02:29.86]To you was love I couldn't show [02:33.08]You forgave the heart that loved you [02:35.80]As your lover turned to go [02:38.65]Leaving nothing but the [02:40.10]Memory of hard love [02:43.53] [02:57.50]Now I'm standing in this phone [02:59.53]Booth with a dollar and a dime [03:03.12]Wondering what to say to you [03:05.68]To ease your troubled mind [03:08.24]For the Lord's Cross might redeem [03:10.89]Us but our own just waste our time [03:13.93]And to tell the two apart [03:16.12]Is always hard love [03:19.66] [03:22.34]So I'll tell you that I love you [03:25.22]Even though I'm far away [03:27.67]I'll tell you how you've changed me [03:30.57]As I live from day to day [03:33.34]How you've helped me to accept [03:35.54]Myself and I won't forget to say [03:38.69]Love is never wasted even [03:41.49]When it's hard love [03:45.08] [03:46.76]Well it's hard love but [03:50.22]It's love all the same [03:52.94]Not the stuff of fantasy [03:55.65]But more than just a game [03:58.32]And the only kind of miracle [04:01.11]That's worthy of the name [04:03.67]For the love that heals our [04:05.45]Lives is mostly hard love