Nights Are Harder These Days

Lost a good friend the other day

Like a fool, I was blind to the signs

Drank right past what he had to say

I couldn’t read between the lines

The last night I saw him, he pulled me close

Laughed as he hugged me goodbye

He said “the mornings, my friend, yeah they’re okay

But the nights are harder these days”

Who will come to your dreams tonight?

Some old flame you didn’t treat quite right

Like a ghost, she sits upon your bed

Familiar ringing in your head, and she says

“You got some pipers you got to pay, love

So your nights are harder these days”

Yeah the nights are harder these days

Watching the numbers change

The minutes fading away, I can’t remember the feeling

When my chest wasn’t crushed by the weight

Yeah the nights are harder these days

Monday morning dawn’s early light

Trucks sweep up yesterday’s news

They don’t know wrong from right

Just making way for tomorrow’s blues

I lay awake and count the ways

That the nights are harder

Watching the numbers change

The minutes fading away, I can’t remember the feeling

When my chest wasn’t crushed by the weight

Yeah the nights are harder these days

Yeah the nights are harder