Lyrics:

A phone call in the middle of the night
It never came
She's been walkin' on pins and needles
Waitin' for the phone to ring to put her mind at ease
The sun's comin' up and I'm comin' in
With another 'I'm sorry, won't happen again'
I can't understand why she never ran
When anybody in their right mind would

Yeah, I'm a hard man to love
But thank God she does
Keep holdin' on, bein' strong
When 'I'm sorry' just ain't enough
Soft as silk, she stands
By her barbed-wire man
She's never given up
I'm a hard man to love

There's a dog house rose that God knows
I didn't send soon enough
Sittin' in the middle of a crippled kitchen table
Barely standin' up from where I kicked it once
It ain't purty enough to make up for me
Messin' up the only love a man could ever need
She shines forgiveness from her patient eyes
I don't see what they see in me

Yeah, I'm a hard man to love
But thank God she does
Keep holdin' on, bein' strong
When 'I'm sorry' just ain't enough
Soft as silk, she stands
By her barbed-wire man
She's never given up
I'm a hard man to love

But I found someone
Tough enough to love a man like me
In spite of the tears she's cried
And the time she's tried so hard to love

This hard man to love
But thank God she does
Keep holdin' on, bein' strong
When 'I'm sorry' just ain't enough
Soft as silk, she stands
By her barbed-wire man
She's never given up
I'm a hard man to love

No, she's never given up
On this hard man to love