Here I am standing at your window again
Waiting for you to say, "Go away or come in"
I´m your locked door´s worst knocker
I´m your curtain´s best friend
I´m trying hard to love you — you don´t make it easy, babe
I´m trying hard to love you — I´m looking for an easy way

Your friends ask about me you say I can be found
With cheap romance novels with their spines battered down
"Oh the heart has no bones," you say, "so it won´t break"
But the purpose of loving is the pounding it takes
I´m trying hard to love you — you don´t make it easy, babe
I´m trying hard to love you — I´m looking for an easy way

The ropes that have bound me leave no marks by their knots
And though they´re your hair that don´t mean I´m not caught
I know the song of the handcuffs as they scrape across the floor
But that new thing you´ve got, I´ve got no clue what it´s for
I´m trying hard to love you — you don´t make it easy, babe
I´m trying hard to love you — I´m looking for an easy way

With fortune´s rocks millstones you hang round my throat
And a brick for my window weighted down with a note
I hope you find someone just as hard as you come
In this hard world sadly that´s so easily done
I´m trying hard to love you — you don´t make it easy, babe
I´m trying hard to love you — I´m looking for an easy way

I´m trying hard to love you — you don´t make it easy, babe
I´m trying hard to love you — there´s gotta be an easy way