[Verse 1]

It's hard to say the girl I love is gone

The world doesn't deserve what she woulda sung

Got doctors in my brain diggin' through my skull

And now it feels like all my beauty's gone

All I ever wanted was a hit song

Buy a house for my parents but that might be all gone

Everyone's gathered 'round crying something went wrong

There's a tumor in my brain but it's not as bad as when I lost love

[Pre-Chorus]

It's like when God built me up, he said

This life is gonna be too hard to live

Grew up poor in the Bronx, with a mother who only needs more

Give her more, God

Said I would have had a chance to get ahead

But I'd be hanging on by a thread

Fake friends, dark times, dead ends

[Chorus]

God put my life on hard mode

God put my life on hard mode

God put my life on hard mode

[Verse 2]

When I was young, they screwed me over for my last dimes

I ran some great successes into land mines

And grief is something no one wants to help ride

They saw how hard it really was and then they slide

Jumping out of moving cars, cut scars across my arm

I made it pretty far, but that's just not far enough

I can't breathe when I see singers singing on TV

That should be my baby

That's 'bout the time I'm drinking

Yeah, yeah, yeah

[Pre-Chorus]

It's like when God built me up, he said

I'll give him strength for the life ahead

I'm okay, despite all of this pain or the hole in my brain

I'm still standing

Yeah, I always pray for a break

And I've almost been at heaven's gates

How much more can I take

[Chorus]

God put my life on hard mode

God put my life on hard mode

God put my life on hard mode

[Bridge]

I will not die, but live

And proclaim what God did

(God put my life on hard mode)

I will not die, but live

And proclaim what God did

(God put my life on hard mode)

[Outro]

(Yeah)

God put my life on hard mode

(Yeah, yeah)

God put my life on hard mode