So give me the hard stuff (hard stuff)

Ooh, yeah...

Anybody can be in love on a sunny day

Anybody can turn and run when it starts to rain

And everybody wishes all the skies were blue

But that ain't the kind of love I'm lookin' to have with you.

So give me the hard stuff

The kind that makes you real

I'll be there when the storm comes

'cause I want the hard stuff

When they're throwin' sticks and stones

We can cut each other to the bone

I'm never gonna give you up

'cause I want the hard stuff (hard stuff)

Yeah, I want the hard stuff (hard stuff, yeah)

My god knows I'm not the man that I want to be

And we all know there's things in this life we refuse to see

So just know my fire for you will always burn

And please forgive the things in this life that I have to learn.

So give me the hard stuff

The kind that makes you real

I wanna be there when the storm comes

'cause I want the hard stuff

When they're throwin' sticks and stones

We can cut each other to the bone

I'm never gonna give you up

'cause I want the hard stuff (hard stuff)

No, we won't have to wonder

Oh, you won't have to wonder

If we're ever goin' under

No, we're never goin' under

No, we're never goin' under.

'cause I want the hard stuff

The kind that makes you real

I wanna be there when the storm comes

'cause I want the hard stuff (I want the hard stuff)

When they're throwin' sticks and stones

Cut each other to the bone (break each other to the bone)

I'm never gonna give you up

'cause I want the hard stuff (hard stuff, oh)

Yeah, I want the hard stuff (I want the hard stuff, yeah)

Yeah, I want the hard stuff

(Give me the hard stuff)

Give me the hard stuff

Yeah, I want the... I want the hard stuff

So give me the hard stuff.