Bobby Bare - Goin' Up's Easy, Comin' Down's Hard lyrics

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Remember the nights we would jam in the motels<br />

After the honky tonks closed<br />

No one had credit<br />

And no one had no place to go.<br />

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Just crazy kids with 'lectric machines<br />

And some soul<br />

Turnin' them crowds on<br />

By playin' some loud rock'n roll.<br />

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Then came the man with a suit and a tie<br />

And the promise of contracts and bread<br />

With all our joy he gave us to fame and fortune<br />

That left us half dead.<br />

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Goin' up's easy<br />

When you got the song<br />

That comes from the depth of the soul<br />

Where it really belongs.<br />

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Comin' down's hard when you find<br />

That you just can't sing it no more<br />

Your emerald ring with the solid gold band<br />

Reflects back the face of a whore.<br />

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Freddie would play on his guitar all day<br />

And sometimes his firgers would bleed<br />

Sam would ride on his drum<br />

Like a magnificent steed.<br />

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Ben on the bass would make the thunder<br />

And the lighting with love<br />

And I'd sing the lyric of life<br />

That I felt the part of.<br />

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Then came the money and Freddie dropped out<br />

To start him a band of his own<br />

Sam bought a frenchise and Bennie OD'd<br />

And I'm soon the label alone.<br />

<br />

Goin' up's easy<br />

When you got the song<br />

That comes from the depth of the soul<br />

Where it really belongs.<br />

<br />

Goin' up's easy<br />

When you got the song<br />

That comes from the depth of the soul<br />

Where it really belongs...