"Hard Times" lyrics - JOHN LEGEND

JOHN LEGEND
"Hard Times"

Yeah, yeah
Oh, whoa
So many hard times
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Mm-mm, oh
Yeah, hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Hey

Cold, cold eyes, upon me they stare
People all around me and they're all in fear
They don't seem to want me, but they won't admit
I must be some kind of creature up here having fits

From my party house, I'm afraid to come outside
Although I'm filled with love, I'm afraid they'll hurt my pride
So I play the part I feel they want of me
And I pull the shades so I don't see them seeing me

Having hard times in this crazy town
Having hard times, there's no love to be found
Having hard times in this crazy town
Having hard times, there's no love to be found
Yeah, yeah, yeah

In my party house, I feel like meeting others
Familiar faces, creed or race, a brother
But to my surprise I find a man corrupt
Although he be my brother, he wants to hold me up

Having hard times in this crazy town
Having hard times, there's no love to be found
Having hard times in this crazy town
Having hard times, there's no love to be found

Check it out, seventeen years and counting
I'm tryna climb up the rough side of the mountain
Friends warned me I'ma have to do it without them
No problem really, it was never about them
So my house, I never come out from
'Cause every day a drought, then a shadow of doubt come
I'm down to do whatever if it betters my outcome
The city's like the Audubon Ballroom waiting on Malcolm
'Cause people wanna see my blood flow like fountains
I got nowhere to go and still feel like bouncing
I'm looking for the closest window I can rap from
Or for the highest speaker-box that I can shout from
And I'm hoping to feel like something is real
But it's no hope when you are but a spoke in a wheel
A brick in a wall, tryna find an opening still
Having hard times, tryna climb over the hill

Yeah, so many hard times, yeah, yeah
Sleeping on motel floors, yeah, yeah
Knocking on my brother's door
Eating Spam, Oreos
Drinking Thunderbird, baby
Yeah

In this crazy town
Having hard times, there's no love to be found
Having hard times in this crazy town
Having hard times, there's no love to be found

Having hard times in this crazy town
Having hard times, there's no love to be found
Having hard times in this crazy town
Having hard times, there's no love to be found

Ay, ay, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, mm, yeah, yeah
So many hard times, yeah, yeah
Sleeping on motel floors, yeah, yeah
Knocking on my brother's door
Eating Spam and Oreos
And drinking Thunderbird, baby, oh, yeah
I don't wanna do it no more
No-no-no, no-no
I don't wanna go back there no more
No-oh
I don't wanna, I don't wanna, I don't wanna, I don't wanna