Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Guided By Voices
Canonical path: /guided-by-voices/the-hard-way
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The Hard Way
Read The Hard Way lyrics by Guided By Voices on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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The Hard Way
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Mannnnn.....
There's a whale outta water
Whoaaaa.....
There's a bone on a string
Doing everything the hard way x2
Stilllll.....
There's ? for the wicked
??? (weak-kneed and ...?)
Go to pale the hard way x2
Sort it out in the animal sea
The factor of the human pride
The place where I was born
The place where my father died
Past the police there's an army
Marching like stone guards from Hell
Into the wishing well the hard way
Wishing well the hard way
Doing everything the hard way x7
We're doing everything the hard way.
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Guided By Voices performs "The Hard Way", and this lyric page sits inside the Guided By Voices catalog on LyroVerse.
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