PAUL SIMON - Love and Hard Times lyrics

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God and his only son

Paid a courtesy call on Earth one Sunday morning

Orange blossoms opened their fragrant lips

Songbirds sang from the tips of cotton roots

Old folks wept

For his love in these hard times

'Well, better be going,'

Said the the restless lord to his son

'There are galaxies yet to be born

Creation is never done

Anyway these people are slobs here

If we stay it's bound to be a mob scene'

Disappeared

And it's just like love in hard times

I loved her the first time I saw her

I know that's an old songwriting clich9

I loved her the first time I saw her

Can't describe it any other way

Any other way

The light of her beauty is warm as a summer day

Clouds of antelopes roll by

No hint of rain

Pale blue sky

Just love, love, love, love, love

But the rains came

The tears burned

The windows rattled

The locks turned

It's easy to be generous when you're owed

It's hard to be grateful

When you're out of control

And love is gone

The light at the edge of the curtain was the quiet dove

The bedroom weaves in clicks and clacks

My heart and my mind will never last

When your hand takes mine

Thank god I found you tonight

Thank god I found you tonight

Thank god I found you