F                                   C 
Sooner or later life will pull you in 
Em            F 
Make you choose to either sink or swim 
                C 
Somewhere down the line it's gonna' break your heart 
Em    F 
Put you out and make you wear the scars. 
                C 
All these dreams come with all this doubt 
        Em    F 
When we can't fit in we try to find a way out 
        C 
Learn to fight so they don't seal our fate 
Em    F 
They say you never see it coming till it's way too late. 


F 
These times are hard 
        G 
It feels like nothings gonna change 
        Am    G 
Nowhere to start and you got nothing for the pain 
F     G 
'Cause when life moves fast it don't matter who you are 
        Am 
You gotta find someone to hold on to 
G 
Damn! These times are hard. 


F     C 
We build those bridges and we watch them burn 
        Em    F 
So quick to pull the trigger, so slow to take our turn 
        C 
We've all been locked out, we've broken down the door 
Em    F 
Some of us hit the dirt, some of us do come back for more 

        C 
When the thirst gets so bad you're just dying to get a taste 
        Em    F 
When it don't involve religion, when it don't involve the race 
        C 
And there’s everything to lose 'cause we were never born to win 
        Em    F 
Willing to sacrifice everything we had just to roll the dice again 


F 
These times are hard 
        G 
It feels like nothings gonna change 
        Am    G 
Nowhere to start and you got nothing for the pain 
F     G 
'Cause when life moves fast it don't matter who you are 
        Am 
You gotta find someone to hold on to 
G 
Damn! These times are hard. 


Bridge: 
Em F Yeah! Em F G 


C     G     Em 
Life isn't perfect so it's just what you make it 
        Am 
And that's what they tell you 
        F 
But it's hard when they're holding you down 
        C 
Somebody out there for you 
        Em    G 
They’re praying it all gets easy someone you hold on to. 

F 
These times are hard 
        G 
It feels like nothings' gonna change 
        Am    G 
Nowhere to start and you got nothing for the pain 
F     G 
'Cause when life moves fast it don't matter who you are 
        Am 
You gotta find someone to hold on to 
G             F 
Damn! These times are hard. 

G 
Yeah! Yeah! 
        Am 
These times are hard 
G 
Ohhhhhhhh!!!! 

        F     G 
'Cause when life moves fast it don't matter who you are 
        Am 
You gotta find someone to hold on to. 
G 
Damn! Damn! 
F 
These times are hard.