Lyrics to
Hard Time Losin’ Man

This version of Hard Time Losin’ Man was released by Jim Croce in 1972.

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And you think you’ve seen trouble
Well you’re lookin’ at the man ah ha
Oh, the world’s own original hard luck story
And a hard time losin’ man

Oh, sometimes skies are cloudy
And sometimes skies are blue
And sometimes they say that you eat the bear
But sometimes the bear eats you
And sometimes I feel like I should go
Far far away and hide
‘Cause I keep a waitin’ for my ship to come in
And all that ever comes is the tide

Oh I saved up all my money
I gonna buy me a flashy car
So I go downtown to see the man
And he smokin’ on a big cigar
Well he must’a thought I were Rockefeller
Or an uptown man of wealth
He said, “Boy I got the car that’s made for you
And it’s cleaner than the Board of Health”
Then I got on the highway…oh, I feelin’ fine…I hit a bump
Then I found I bought a car held together
By wire, and a couple a’ hunks of twine

Oh, Friday night, feelin’ right
I head out on the street
Standin’ in the doorway
Was a dealer known as Pete
Well he sold me a dime of some super fine
Dynamite from Mexico
I spent all that night
Just tryin’ to get right
On an ounce of oregano

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About Lyrics and Hard Time Losin’ Man by Jim Croce

The lyrics to Hard Time Losin’ Man are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Jim Croce used when the song was created in 1972. The lyrics to Hard Time Losin’ Man have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Jim Croce and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Hard Time Losin’ Man by Jim Croce. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Hard Time Losin’ Man" means the words set to the music of Hard Time Losin’ Man, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jim Croce. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Hard Time Losin’ Man and the lyrics to Hard Time Losin’ Man are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jim Croce who came here looking just for the lyrics to Hard Time Losin’ Man, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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