The Hard Way Lyrics

I was lookin' for my exit on the interstate sign

But the wind went and blew it down

I took a wrong right turn about a half a mile back

My direction's all spun around

Through the sideways rain and the love and the shame

I watched the sunlight disappear

Then the sun so black said, "You'll never make it back

'Til you do some hard time out here"

God gave me the rain

To wash away my pain

And learn from bad mistakes I've made

The hard way

Now the rain let up as I came to a stop

Right between two cotton fields

I saw a coal-black crow in an old dead tree

Starin' right back at me

Yeah, I wanted to surrender as my eyes went blind

A thunderbolt split the sky

Well then I noticed I was headed down the same dirt road

That Robert Johnson sang about

God gave me the rain

To wash away my pain, yeah

And learn from bad mistakes I've made

The hard way

God gave me the rain

Yeah, to wash away my pain

And to learn, to learn, to learn, to learn, to learn, to learn from bad mistakes that I've made

The hard way, yeah, yeah, yeah

God gave me the rain

To wash away my pain

And to learn from bad mistakes I've made

The hard way, yeah

I got to do everything the hard way

Hard way

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Talking 'bout, 'bout the hard way

Learn from bad mistakes I've learned the hard way