"She's A Hard Girl To Know" lyrics

She's a hard girl to know
Just when you think that you've read her mind
She'll sabotage you, leave you blind
And the world turns on its head
She's a hard girl to know
Just when you think she's halfway sane
She'll resurrect some old campaign
And turn on you instead
But then she'll do something just for you
So out and out loving, so out and out true
The beauty scares you half to death
It takes away dark and doubt and breath
And she turns back into that girl, your girl
And the smell of her perfume perfumes the world

She's a hard girl to know
Chases she's gone like a will-of-the-wisp
And that old sadness is hard to resist
And the world's dark as a cave
She's a hard girl to know
You can ask her the questions, it isn't much use
There's no explanation, there'll be no excuse
And you feel used up like a slag
But then you notice it's her in the wings
Shifting the scenery, pulling the strings
When you see that mountain you had to climb
But you didn't believe you could at the time
With her twisted way of making you strong
And easing and teasing you further along

She's a hard girl to know
In the act of giving is she taking your sides
Like there's somebody else in the back of her eyes
You never met before
She's a hard girl to know
And she acts so different with the people she meets
You wonder whose heart is the heart that beats
At the center, the essence, the core
And then she'll do something so reckless, so wild
That you see in the woman the soul of the child
And the child's saying never let go of my hand
It's a deep ocean so drink all you can
Drink till you drown in it, swallow the sea
Lose your confusion and drown in me