Put my feet under cold water

Whenever I get home

And I tell myself that I did it all better

Than I might have done

I came up like a paper daughter

Fallen with the afterthought

And the tender mercy that I was after came hard won

Hard Won

Oh how I've tried

Keeping you in my mind

And I've done my time

Lying awake at night

But oh

Those lonely times are done

And oh

It was hard won

Hard won

Found myself in a strange new land

Without a hand to hold

And I was mad at God

For leaving me standing in bitter sun

But I kept hanging on to the very end of my rope

When sitting down alright with myself came hard won

Hard won

Oh how I've tried

Keeping you in my mind

And I've done my time

Lying awake at night

But oh

Those lonely times are done

And oh

It was hard won

Hard won

I was up on the Third Street Bridge

The night you got my letter

I was singing out in Virginia

When you found someone

I had to lay your memory down

On the altar of my anger

And the piece of mind that I finally found came hard won

Hard won

Oh how I've tried

Keeping you in my mind

And I've done my time

Lying awake at night

But oh

Those lonely times are done

And I know oh

Yeah I know, I know, I know

Yeah I know oh

It was hard won

Hard won