When It Don't Come Easy

Patty Griffin · Impossible Dream [2004]

Red lights are flashing on the highway

I wonder if we're gonna ever get home

I wonder if we're gonna ever get home tonight

Everywhere the water's getting rough

Your best intentions may not be enough

I wonder if we're gonna ever get home tonight



But if you break down

I'll drive out and find you

If you forget my love

I'll try to remind you

And stay by you when it don't come easy, mhm



I don't know nothin' except change will come

Year after year what we do is undone

Time keeps movin' from a crawl to a run

I wonder if we're gonna ever get home



You're out there walkin' down a highway

And all of the signs got blown away

Sometimes you wonder if you're walkin'

In the wrong direction



But if you break down

I'll drive out and find you

If you forget my love

I'll try to remind you

And stay by you when it don't come easy

When it don't come easy, oh oh



So many things that I had before

They don't matter to me now

Tonight I cry for the love that I've lost

And the love I've never found

When the last bird falls

And the last siren sounds

Someone will say what's been said before

It's only love we were looking for



But if you break down

I'll drive out and find you

If you forget my love

I'll try to remind you

And stay by you when it don't come easy

When it don't come easy, oh oh.