Hard To Be A Hippie

Album: We Are Tonight (2013)
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  • It used to be that
    You could up and thumb a ride from Nashville to L.A.
    And everyone who stopped and picked you up
    Would get you high along the way

    And it used to be that
    You could fall in and out of love in an afternoon
    And then fall again that evening
    And not think that it was happening too soon

    But it's hard to be a hippie anymore
    It hurts more now
    Waking up on the floor
    Oh, it's still free
    But it ain't easy like before
    It's hard to be a hippie anymore

    Fire it up boys

    It used to be just walking down the street
    Would make the people stop and stare
    Now all the cowboys and the preppies
    And the rednecks and the yuppies have long hair

    But I was always going places
    In my head and seeing things that blew my mind
    Now the only thing I'm trippin' on
    Are my own two feet, trying to keep up with the times
    Ah yeah, you know that's right

    But it's hard to be a hippie anymore
    It hurts more now
    Waking up on the floor
    Oh, it's still free
    But it ain't easy like before
    It's hard to be a hippie anymore

    Lord, it's still free
    But it ain't easy like before
    It's hard to be a hippie anymore Writer/s: DIANA BRYANT, JOHN SCOTT SHERRILL, SCOTTY EMERICK
    Publisher: COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS, ME GUSTA MUSIC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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