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Hard Reality

There’s no escape, no way out
Not through the silver screen, or the nagging doubt
Not through the stories or through the dreams
Not even through way things seem
There’s no escape it comes to us all
The lowest hope and the highest fall
In the end it’s about who we know
One way or the other

Not through the books or the big ideas
Not through the hardest work or the driving fears
Not through the landscape that we walk upon
Not in what we leave long after we have gone
There’s no escape in the gathering in
Of all the people that we’ve ever been
Or the many faces that we find ourselves in
One way or the other

It’s hard reality

Can’t be by the style some of us execute
Not by the clever way some people try to look
Not by all the wars in defence of truth
Not in poison words or the bitter dispute
There’s no escape through the hatred and lies
Or all the wisdom that we think to be wise
No redemption in the songs to the skies
One way or the other

It’s hard reality

Not in the night, not in the day
The lessons of loss or our slow decay
Not in the poetry, not in the rhyme or the verse
Don’t try that way you it’s often worse
There’s no escape in the will to live
In the end it’ll take all and more than you can give
No it all comes down to a simple gift
One way or the other

Words & Music by Gareth Davies-Jones PRS
Copyright© Gareth Davies-Jones 2006