Hard Times
Echoes of Resilience: Embracing Hope Amid Hardship
Lyrics
Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears
Reflect on life's pleasures and acknowledge its sorrows.
While we all sup sorrow with the poor
We share sorrow with the less fortunate.
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears
A lasting song that echoes in our ears.
Oh Hard times come again no more
Expressing a desire for difficult times to cease.
Tis the song, the sigh of the weary
Describing the song as the expression of the tired and burdened.
Hard times, hard times, come again no more
Repetition of the plea for hard times to end.
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door
Reference to the prolonged presence of adversity.
Oh hard times come again no more
Reiteration of the hope for an end to challenging times.
While we seek mirth and beauty and music bright and gay
While seeking joy, beauty, and music, there's suffering at the doorstep.
There are frail forms fainting at the door
Frail individuals suffering outside the door.
Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say
Though silent, their expressions convey the plea to end hardship.
Oh hard times come again no more
Reiteration of the desire for difficult times to pass.
Tis the song, the sigh of the weary
Reemphasizing the song as an expression of weariness.
Hard times, hard times, come again no more
Repetition underscoring the plea to avoid recurring difficult times.
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door
Highlighting the prolonged presence of hardship near the speaker.
Oh hard times come again no more
Restating the wish for an end to hard times.
Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave
Describing a sigh carried over troubled waves.
Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore
A wail heard upon the shore, expressing sorrow.
Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave
Describing a dirge murmured around a humble grave, symbolizing loss.
Oh hard times come again no more
Reiteration of the desire to prevent the return of difficult times.
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