Hard Times

from Charity by Greg Ronning

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You walked out of the garden under a blue yet tainted sky,
The warmth of the midday sun turns to shadows by and by;
And all your dreams of life and love somehow escape your mind,
All you can remember is now, the hard times

Hard Times, day after day
Hard times, always in the way
Hard times, the past is on their side
Haunting you until the day you die

You walker along the desert until you learned to fly
Now the magical flying machine falls from the sky;
And in a crazy frenzy once you walked upon the moon
Starving children paid the price, they died and your still doomed

Hard Times, day after day
Hard times, always in the way
Hard times, the past is on their side
Haunting you until the day you die

You built a machine, higher than the sun
You said it would make life easy but now the worst to come;
You never get no rest there's always work to do
Your gifted machine has made a slave out of you

Hard times, day after day after day,
Hard times, there's got to be a better way
Than hard times, the past is on their side,
Haunting you until the day you
(Haunting you until the day you die),
Haunting you until the day you die,
Hard times, Hard times

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from Charity, released August 30, 2013

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Greg Ronning Huntington Beach, California

Greg Ronning is a singer-songwriter. His music is influenced by the great singer-songwriters of the 70's including The Beatles, Neil Young, Larry Norman, and James Taylor.

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