It Ain't Easy - Tom Paxton

Everywhere I looked this morning

You were on my mind

Sometimes we have moments

When good news is hard to find

No one knows exactly

What another’s going through

But singing you these simple words

ls one thing I can do

Though it ain’t easy

It ain’t easy

The living and the loving

Are no easy things to do

It ain’t easy

It ain’t easy

And that’s why I want to be a friend

For you

I know you lost something

That you loved with all your heart

I know how the grieving

Feels like tearing you apart

Just remember something

That might ease you through the pain

There are those who’ll carry you

Until you’re whole again

Though it ain’t easy

It ain’t easy

The living and the loving

Are no easy things to do

It ain’t easy

It ain’t easy

That’s why I wanna be a friend

For you

Only you can understand

The load you have to bear

All a friend can offer

Is to try to take a share

Friends are all we have

And I just want to help you see

However hard it gets for you

You have that friend in me

Though it ain’t easy

Though it ain’t easy

The living and the loving

Are no easy things to do

It ain’t easy

It ain’t easy

That’s why I wanna be a friend

For you

That’s why I wanna be a friend

For you