twice as hard

I've been hesitant to write about any songs from Shake Your Money Maker, because, honestly, it's the album with which I'm least familiar (aside from Lions which is a whole other entity). I've listened to it only a handful of times, whereas I've listened to most of the other albums more times than I can count. And I don't think it's because Shake Your Money Maker isn't as good. It's maybe that everyone knows it's good. But, unlike most, my favourite song off of this album isn't She Talks to Angels. If I can even surprise myself, I must say I don't love that song, and I don't cherish it above all tbc songs like most people do. Rather, I prefer something like Twice as Hard. Twice as Hard still engenders that early tbc sound, but without the polish or magnetism of She Talks to Angels and Hard to Handle (which I do love but it isn't a tbc orginal, and that's what I'm trying to focus on with these posts-- the beauty of tbc originals).

Regarding Twice as Hard, Crowesbase quotes Chris as saying, "There was a pain in my heart. Feeling lonely and knowing. I was losing touch with someone. Hoping that maybe the next time around it'll be different but it never is. A love song, plain and simple." And as you know, if there is a category of tbc songs I love that isn't about breaking up, it's that I feel so many of their songs are about love, in all its forms. So that's Twice as Hard, it's still kind of about breaking up, or, maybe, just about the hardship of love . . .never easy, but it makes for a great song. That is, "Love ain't funny / A crime in the wink of an eye."

Clean as a whistle
Smellin' like a rose
She got no dirty little fingers
Bloodshot eyes are gone
Tell me I'm wrong

Twice as Hard
As it was the first time
I said goodbye

And no one ever wanna' know
Love ain't funny
A crime in the wink of an eye

Your sister always singing
She play the step child
A broken little memory
Her heart was never kind
Tell me I'm blind

Yeah, bloodshot eyes are gone
Tell me I'm wrong

Twice as Hard
As it was the first time
I said goodbye

Twice as Hard
As it was the first time
I said goodbye

Twice as Hard
As it was the first time
I said goodbye

Twice as Hard
As it was the first time
I said goodbye

Twice as Hard
As it was the first time
I said goodbye