Hard To Believe Lyrics - Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away - Slaid Cleaves

We got old time bars 

Still standing on downtown city streets 

Old ladies serving drinks inside 

With no color in their cheeks 

Listening to a Haggard song 

You can put your old blue collar on 

Old Milwaukee on Christmas Eve 

It's hard to believe 

Street girls hop from foot to foot 

Trying to keep warm 

Trying to pay down a few bills 

Before the next big storm 

On a corner, trembling in the wind 

Amazed at the mess they're in 

Wipin' their noses on their sleeve 

It's hard to believe 

I swore I'd leave the day they knocked 

That old smokestack down 

But there's a guy I need to talk to 

Before I quit this town 

Drivin' past the prison yard 

Still got my old Teamsters card 

Still waitin' on my reprieve 

It's hard to believe 

When I looked into her smiling eyes 

I saw dreams so fine 

Like the Spirit of Chicago 

On a lonesome old railroad line 

I would have gone with her that day 

I just watched her as she drove away 

I guess one of us had to leave 

It's hard to believe 

Here comes another 

Blown up kid from over there 

Making the whole world 

Safe for the millionaires 

The same old swindle hides 

Behind a fresh new coat of lies 

It's no time to be naive 

It's hard to believe 

We got old time bars 

Still standing on downtown city streets 

Old ladies serving drinks inside 

With no color in their cheeks 

Listening to a Haggard song 

You can put your old blue collar on 

It's another New Years Eve 

It's hard to believe