Bruce Cockburn The Strong One Lyrics

The Strong One Lyrics

Isn't it hard

To be the one who has to give advice?

Isn't it hard

To be the strong one? 



I see the skyline blurred through the
plastic on your back screen door

Not unlike the faces of the people who
keep turning up in the places we go

The ones we'd never see if things
weren't going so well

When I was a torn jacket hanging on the barbed
wire

You cut me free

And sewed me up and here I am 



Isn't it hard

To be the one whose phone rings all day everyday?

Isn't it hard

To be the strong one? 



Mouths move without
vision -- without regard for consequences

Eyes fill with memories
poisoned by intimate knowledge of failure to love

Sometimes, sometimes,
doesn't the light seem to move so far away?

You help your sisters, you
help your old lovers,

you help me but who do you cry to? 



'Cause isn't it hard

To be the one who gathers everybody's tears?

Isn't it hard

To be the strong one?