Here I am standing at your window again
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Waiting for you to say go away or come in
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I'm your locked door's worst knocker
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I'm your curtain's best friend
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I'm trying hard to love you you don't make it easy Babe
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I'm trying hard to love you I'm looking for an easy way
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Your friends ask about me you say I can be found
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With the cheap romance novels with their spines battered down
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Oh the heart has no bones you say so it won't break
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But the purpose of loving is the pounding it takes
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I'm trying hard to love you you don't make it easy Babe
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I'm trying hard to love you I'm looking for an easy way
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The ropes that have bound me leave no marks by their knots
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And though they're your hair that don't mean I'm not caught
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I know the song of the handcuffs as they scrape across the floor
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But that new thing you've got I've got no clue what it's for
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I'm trying hard to love you you don't make it easy Babe
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I'm trying hard to love you I'm looking for an easy way
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With fortune's rocks millstones you hang round my throat
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And a brick for my window weighted down with a note
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I hope you find someone just as hard as you come
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In this hard world sadly that's so easily done
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I'm trying hard to love you you don't make it easy Babe
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I'm trying hard to love you I'm looking for an easy way
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I'm trying hard to love you you don't make it easy Babe
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I'm trying hard to love you there's gotta be an easy way
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You Don't Make It Easy Babe
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Josh Ritter |