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The hardest work I've ever done I labored all in vain
The toughest love I've known was known by all as Liza Jane
All I had were promises when I knocked on her door
A stocking in her hand, she looked at me with scorn
Lord, Liza, here's some sugar cane
I wonder if it's sweet enough
to sweeten you up Liza Jane

I offered her my hand, she recoiled and cursed
"Not even if you were the only man on God's gray Earth"
With a lovely look of pity, she wrung a rag and sighed
"You must be the dumbest thing that ever lived and died"
Lord, Liza, here's some sugar cane
I wonder if it's sweet enough
to sweeten you up Liza Jane

One night I carried her in the rain for seven miles
I swear it was the first and only time I saw her smile
A baby's in the backyard, a baby's on her knee
I'll raise them like my own, but neither looks like me
Lord, Liza, here's some sugar cane
I wonder if it's sweet enough
to sweeten you up Liza Jane

The children cry for mother, they never cry for me
They treat me like the stranger she said I'll always be
The essence of your soul is passed on as it is
The children love me even less than their mother did
Lord, Liza, here's some sugar cane
I wonder if it's sweet enough
to sweeten you up Liza Jane

I may not know anything, but I know what love is
Love is something random
Love is sad and sick
Love is so relentless
brutal, mad, and cruel
Love's a gift from heaven
about to fall on you

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from Truth That Hurts, released February 1, 2016
By Christopher Thomas Elliott

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