Burden to Bear - Jimmy LaFave

There’s a reason to be happy, baby

There’s a reason to be sad

Oh there’s a reason to throw it away

I find it so hard to relate these days

To anything or anyone at all

Everything that matters

Everything that ever will

On a distant shoreline way across the western hills

I can’t seem to get there, you know it seems my life’s been put on hold

The time keeps slipping away

They say you can fool yourself but not very long

I think I’ve been fooling myself my whole life long

Taken everything that mattered

I watched it leave without a care

Don’t you know, don’t you know that’s the hardest burden to bear

Look in the mirror I see the lines on my face

Look in my eyes I can feel all the pain

Of everything I’ve been ashamed of in the past

There’s enough regret there to last

And I can’t deny what I understand

If you live your life like a one night stand

You wind up alone and lost and afraid with nothing to say

I guess it doesn’t matter anyway

They say you can fool yourself but not very long

I think I’ve been fooling myself my whole life long

Taken everything that mattered

I watched it leave without a care

Don’t you know, don’t you know, that’s the hardest burden to bear

The hardest burden to bear

The hardest burden to bear