Hard Times Prelude

I was made in the hard times

That pain is a goldmine

It'll make a poor fool wise, oh, yeah

It got real in the hard times

It hurt bad but I don't mind

That hurt'll make a heart kind

I believe that I'm where You want me

I can see from the place You brought me

There's life in the light

Of what the hard times taught me

Though it didn't go the way I planned it

I learned how to live open-handed

And a brand new day with

What the hard times taught me

Woo-hoo, ooh-ooh

Mmh...