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









--words & music by Michael Stanley