Hard Man to Love

A phone call in the middle of the night

It never came

She's been walkin' on pins and needles

Waitin' for the phone to ring to put her mind at ease

The sun's comin' up and I'm comin' in

With another "I'm sorry, won't happen again"

I can't understand why she never ran

When anybody in their right mind would

Yeah, I'm a hard man to love

But thank God she does

Keep holdin' on, bein' strong

When "I'm sorry" just ain't enough

Soft as silk, she stands

By her barbed-wire man

She's never given up

I'm a hard man to love

There's a dog house rose that God knows

I didn't send soon enough

Sittin' in the middle of a crippled kitchen table

Barely standin' up from where I kicked it once

It ain't purty enough to make up for me

Messin' up the only love a man could ever need

She shines forgiveness from her patient eyes

I don't see what they see in me

Yeah, I'm a hard man to love

But thank God she does

Keep holdin' on, bein' strong

When "I'm sorry" just ain't enough

Soft as silk, she stands

By her barbed-wire man

She's never given up

I'm a hard man to love

But I found someone

Tough enough to love a man like me

In spite of the tears she's cried

And the time she's tried so hard to love

This hard man to love

But thank God she does

Keep holdin' on, bein' strong

When "I'm sorry" just ain't enough

Soft as silk, she stands

By her barbed-wire man

She's never given up

I'm a hard man to love

No, she's never given up

On this hard man to love