Hard To Be

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You've heard the story you know 
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how it goes

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Once upon a garden we were lovers
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 with no clothes

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Fresh from the soil we were 
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beautiful and true

Dm                     Am        
In control of our emotions till 
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we ate the poison fruit

And now its

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Hard to be
Dm      Am
Hard to be
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Hard to be
  Dm                  Am
A decent Human being

                    Em
Wait just a minute

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You expect me to believe

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Dm                Am             
that all this misbehaving grew 
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from one enchanted tree

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And helpless to fight it we 
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should all be satisfied

Dm                  Am           
With the magical explanation for 
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why the living die

And why it's

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Hard to be
Dm      Am
Hard to be
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Hard to be
    Dm         Am
A decent Human being

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Childbirth is painful toil to 
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grow our food

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Ignorance made us hungry

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Information made us no good
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      Dm                        Em
Every burden misunderstood

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I swung my tassel to the left side
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 of my cap

         Dm           Am          
Knowing after graduation there 
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would be no going back

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and no congratulations from my 
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faithful family

        Dm               Am       
some of whom are already fasting 
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to intercede for me

Because it's

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Hard to be
Dm      Am
Hard to be
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Hard to be
Dm            Am
A decent human being