The Hardest Part - Ryan Adams, The Cardinals

Pay my respect to the company store

I ain’t got no money don’t want no more

Pay my respects to the company boys

now just move along

I worked hard for every little bit I got

And got lucky once on some advice

Met a dark haired girl that the Mississippi moon

Musta left by mistake one night

In a hurry, Lord

And that ain’t the hardest part

The hardest part is loving

Somebody that cares for you so much

Promises don’t pay cash at the bank

If they did I’m bidding your word

They couldn’t pay me for the time that it took to write a check

To buy a babydoll for my girl

And I worked hard for every little bit I got

The things I got are gonna stay

and it’s been flooding so hard on them company mines

That you know it’s gonna flood someday

And you’re gonna miss someone

And that ain’t the hardest part

The hardest part is loving somebody that cares for you

And that ain’t the hardest part

The hardest part is working and I’ve worked enough

I could stretch that penny like a silver line

Rolling through the pages of my life

Underneath your name where it’s underlined

I’ve been turned around

I’ve been mystified by a true love

And that ain’t the hardest part

Talkin' bout a true love

And that ain’t the hardest part

And that ain’t the hardest part

And that ain’t the hardest part