When It Don’t Come Easy
written by vanessa collier
When it don’t come easy
Be the river runnin’ through
When it don’t come easy
Nobody’s gonna save you
Wear down the mountains
Whittle down the earth
Tough as it may seem
When it don’t come easy
The river keeps runnin’ downstream
There’s a hooked nose man hidin’ in the craters of the moon
He’s been aimin’ his spotlight at all my faults
I try to slip in between the slats of the light
But I’m havin’ no luck at all (ooh ooh)
I’m so busy wastin’ my time
Starin’ back at the past fallin’ behind
I'm dancin’ alone in the graphite night
Oh the midnight haze it whispers, I strain to listen
And I meet my shadow sayin’
When it don’t come easy
Be the river runnin’ through
When it don’t come easy
Nobody’s gonna save you
Wear down the mountains
Whittle down the earth
Tough as it may seem
When it don’t come easy
The river keeps runnin’ downstream
I’ve been sandin’ down my splintered heart
Catchin’ all the sediment of trial and error
Come to settle like sawdust in my soul ooh ooh
I followed the broken arrow
That pointed down the dark and narrow
Now I’m dancin’ alone in the graphite night
Oh the midnight haze it whispers, I strain to listen
And I meet my shadow sayin’
It won’t come easy
No it won’t come easy
Oh no it won’t come easy
I am the rapids, roarin’ and free
I am the water, a torrent of dreams
And oh I can’t be tamed
You can dam up the river
But the river just won’t be restrained
When it don’t come easy
Be the river runnin’ through
When it don’t come easy
Nobody’s gonna save you
Wear down the mountains
Whittle down the earth
Tough as it may seem
When it don’t come easy
The river keeps runnin’ downstream
The river keeps runnin’ downstream