Hard Times Lyrics - Edie Brickell

He left home when she was seventeen, we came back to see her 

She was older, cold and even mean, not like we remembered 

Out along the old road where the Indian Paintbrush grows 

She began to cry and said she wanted us to know 

There were hard times when the family was broken 

There were hard times then she lit up a smoke and said 

Gonna open up my umbrella and keep it off of me 

It's so easy to go somewhere but so hard to leave 

I move far away and still the memories find me there 

When I hear the clock and see the dust come off the chair 

There were hard times I don't wanna remember 

There were hard times and I don't want to see you now 

Let the wind and white sheet blow through the room 

I can live with the ghosts but not with you 

It was never so easy saying goodbye 

Sitting at a bus stop waiting for euphoria 

I've heard so much bad news today 

I don't think I can take anymore 

Of the hard times shadows on the horizon 

All the hard times rusty glow in the sunrise