It was paradise for just a while   It didn't take much for us to smile   Now I see you in a harder time      Money still falls from the trees   No one picks it up, but the breeze   and it blows away, far away from our homes      In times like this, what we need   is all the happiness that we can heed   For someday soon, hard times always come      Hard times always come   Oh if you're feeling kind of numb,   Just know hard times always come      Hiding here all along,   amidst the people, amidst the song   Sing it loud, from mountaintops we yell      A glimmer of hope and light,   between the fearfulness and the fright   We must do away, with what is not love      In times like this, what we need   is all the happiness that we can heed   For someday soon, hard times always come      Hard times always come   Oh if you're feeling kind of numb,   Just know hard times always come