IntroVerse 1I Came Here With A Notebook And A Secondhand GuitarSleepin’ In My Chevy, Reachin’ For A StarI Played The Bluebird, Open Mic NightsHoped My Words Would Take Off And Catch Some FlightPre-ChorusBut A Million Songs Drop Every WeekFeels Like Shoutin’ In A Storm, Tryin’ To SpeakChorus‘Cause Nothin’ Comes Easy In NashvilleWhere The Heart Gets Broke Before The DealYou Sing For Tips At Douglas CornerAnd Pray Someday That Dream Turns RealThe Opry’s Light Feels Far AwayBut I Still Write Songs Anyway‘Cause Nothin’ Comes Easy In NashvilleBut The Music Never FadesVerse 2Met A Girl At The Listening Room, She Sang Like JuneTold Me, “They Don’t Pay You Much, But They’ll Remember Your Tune”She Faced Closed Doors, Just ‘Cause Of Her NameStill She Wrote With Fire, Set The Stage To FlamePre-ChorusThey Say Ai Writes Melodies NowBut It Don’t Know Pain, It Don’t Know HowChorus‘Cause Nothin’ Comes Easy In NashvilleWhere The Soul’s Worth More Than GoldYou Bleed On Stage At The BasementTryin’ To Make Your Story ToldThe Rhyme Don’t Pay, The Check Runs ThinBut We Keep Pickin’ Through The Din‘Cause Nothin’ Comes Easy In NashvilleBut The Fire Burns WithinBridgeFrom Tin Roof’s Laugh To The Station InnWe Trade Our Verses Like They’re SinsHopin’ Someday, The Right One HearsThe Song We’ve Carried All These YearsChorus – Key Change to A‘Cause Nothin’ Comes Easy In NashvilleBut These Songs Still Find A WayThrough Heartbreak Nights And Dead-End GigsWe Write What We Can’t SayFrom Belcourt Taps To Puckett’s StageWe Earn Each Lyric, Page By Page‘Cause Nothin’ Comes Easy In NashvilleBut I’m Here, And I’m Gonna StayOutroYeah, Nothin’ Comes Easy In NashvilleBut That’s Why The Songs Sound This Way
