It's Not Easy

Lord have mercy

I remember the day I called mama on the telephone

I told her mama, I'm gettin' married

I could hear her voice on the other side of the telephone, she was smilin'

And she asked me a question that I proudly answered

She said "Son, did you take time to know her?"

I said mama, she's the best

But today it hurts me so, to go back to mama and say

Mama, I'm gettin' divorced

Oh, I'm gettin' divorced

This choice I made didn't work out the way I thought it would

This choice I made, it hurt me so, mama

This choice I made, didn't work out the way I thought it would

This choice of mine, oh

Mama said to me "It's not easy to understand it, son

But I hope you'll make it, you'll be happy again"

"It's not easy to understand it, son

But I hope you'll make it, you'll be happy again"

I remember in church, when the preacher man read the scriptures

You looked so beautiful, so beautiful and so innocent

I did not know that behind that beauty

Lies the true colors that will destroy me in the near future

This choice I made didn't work to be what I thought it would be

Oh, mama

This choice that I made didn't work out the way I thought it would, now I'm hurtin'

I remember when I held you by the hand

Preacher man read the scriptures

Puttin' words in your mouth

Maybe what the preacher man said

Was not somethin' that was within you

Now I know what they mean when they say

Beautiful woman is another man's play thing

Oh lord, I'm hurtin' now

This choice I made didn't work out the way I thought it would

This choice of mine, oh

Mama said to me "It's not easy to understand it, son

But I hope you'll make it, you'll be happy again"