Harder and Harder

Spent some time out on the road
Bringing empty pockets home
Singing songs nobody knows and never will
Like the grass under a stone
Like New Orleans under storm
I was held down by the hand I'd been holding

Yeah it gets harder and harder
I ain't looking back
But I know that I ain't getting
Any farther

Every page I never turned
Everything I never learned
Left a fire inside that never burned
When you lay it all down
When you fade into the sound
You just drift away on every note

Yeah it gets harder and harder
I ain't looking back
But I know that I ain't getting
Any farther so I wander
I slip through every crack
And the road ahead just keeps on
Getting harder

I think it's one long race
With a tape you'll never break
Like a bow that you can't ever untie
It gets thrown in your face
And it knocks you off your pace
But it feels like something's sleeping inside

So when my morning light breaks
And the ground beneath me shakes
And my one and only road is run
I will stand upon that stage
The only soul I could not save
Singing every word I never sung

Yeah it gets harder and harder
I ain't looking back
But I know that I ain't getting
Any farther so I wander
I slip through every crack
And the road ahead just keeps on
Getting harder