I've been working my fingers to the bone Every day is one more dad done gone Show me a sign so that I can see The sun is gonna shine one day on me We got a long way to go And a short time to get there Get your foot in the door And don't just sit there I don't need you but I want you And I wish that you could see You're hard to please So hard to please Ain't nothin' ever good enough for you You got me down on my knees You're gonna have your way No matter which way Say whatever you're gonna say Oh you're hard to please Well it's a big ol' world with lots of folks in it Some take take and some gonna giveth At the end of the day it's all about the same Ain't nobody else that you can blame For your own damn troubles And the way you go Buck up now you got a long ways home It's like I said when you end up dead There's nowhere else to go You're hard to please So hard to please Ain't nothin' ever good enough for you You got me down on my knees You're gonna have your way No matter which way Say whatever you're gonna say Oh yeah, you're hard to please Tell me once more so that I can hear All the things you know And all the things you fear Do what you want 'cuz At the end of the day You know just what I'll say You're hard to please So hard to please You're hard to please So hard to please You're hard to please So hard to please Ain't nothin' ever good enough for you You got me down on my knees You're gonna have your way No matter which way Say whatever you're gonna say Oh yeah, you're hard to please You're hard to please So hard to please You're hard to please So hard to please