It's Not Easy by Lucky Dube

Lord have mercy

I remember the day I called mama on the telephone
I told her mama I'm getting married
I could hear her voice on the other side
Of the telephone she was smiling
And she asked me a question
That I (1)______________ answered
She said son did you (2)________ time
To know her?
I (3)________ mama, she is the best
But today it hurts me so to go (4)________ to
Mama and say
Mama I'm (5)______________ divorced
(Oh) I'm getting divorced
The (6)____________ I made didn't work out the way
I (7)______________ it would
This (8)____________ I made
It hurts me so mama

This (9)____________ I made didn't work out the way
I thought it would
This (10)____________ of mine (oh)

Mama (11)________ to me
It's not (12)________ to (13)____________________ it son
But I (14)________ you'll make it
You'll be happy again
It's not easy to understand it son
But I (15)________ you'll make it
You'll be happy again

I remember in church
When the preacher man read the scriptures
You looked so beautiful, so beautiful
And so innocent

I did not know that (16)____________ that beauty
Lies the true colours that will destroy me
In the (17)________ future
This choice I made didn't work out to be
What I thought it would be
(Oh) mama this choice I made
Didn't work out the way I thought it would
Now I'm hurting

I (18)________________ when I held you by the hand
Preacher man read the scriptures
Putting (19)__________ in (20)________ mouth
Maybe (21)________ the preacher man said
Was not something that was within you
Now I know (22)________ (23)________ mean (24)________ they say
Beautiful woman
Is another man's plaything
(Oh) lord, I'm hurting now
This choice I made didn't (25)________ out the way
I thought it would
This (26)____________ of mine (oh)
Mama (27)________ to me
It's not easy to understand it son
But I (28)________ you'll make it
(You'll be happy again)

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