The Hard Way

Well, 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

Watched the sunlight disappear

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

Till 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

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

Well, I wanted to surrender as my eyes went blind

A thunderbolt split the sky

I noticed I was headed down the same dirt road

That Robert Johnson sang about

Well, God gave me the rain

To wash away my pain

And learn from bad mistakes I've made

The hard way

Well, God gave me the rain

To wash away my pain

And learn from bad mistakes I've made

The hard way

God gave me the rain

To wash away my pain

And learn from bad mistakes I've made

The hard way

Well, God gave me the rain

To wash away my pain

And learn from bad mistakes I've made

The hard way

Yeah, the hard way, yeah

The hard way

To learn from bad mistakes I've made

The hard way

Yeah, the hard way

Always the hard way

Always the hard way