[Chorus]
Isn't it hard
To be the one who has to give advice?
Isn't it hard
To be the strong one?

[Verse 1]
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

[Chorus]
Isn't it hard
To be the one whose phone rings all day every day?
Isn't it hard
To be the strong one?

[Verse 2]
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?
[Chorus]
'Cause isn't it hard
To be the one who gathers everybody's tears?
Isn't it hard
To be the strong one?
Isn't it hard
To be the one who gathers everybody's tears?
Isn't it hard
To be the strong one?