Hardest Way Possible

Another elephant gray sky and it's cold outside
I've been a phantom with no place to hide
Is my fortune searching for the love inside?
Or am I tortured, scorching 'cause I'm burning alive inside

I am small
But light gets in through cracks in these walls
When I see you, I glow
I glow like no one else can know

It's so hard, it's the hardest by far
Hardest way possible
It's the hardest, it's the hardest by far
The hardest way possible

Won't be soon, I can't promise you
But I promise you for good
You won't be trampled underfoot

It's the hardest way to give
It's the hardest way to take
It's the hardest way to live for Christ sake

So hard but God heal these scars
Take bleeding hearts out of bars
That drown away the hours drown away the hours
Getting to the bottom of it fast
Swimming damn near the bottom of the glass

It's so hard, it's the hardest by far
Hardest way possible
It's the hardest, it's the hardest by far
The hardest way possible

You can't and you and you stop
When every rung of the ladder is farther to drop
What is at stake now? What is not?
And what is not?

It's so hard, it's the hardest by far
Hardest way possible
It's the hardest, it's the hardest by far
The hardest way possible

It's the hardest way possible
It's so hard