The Hard Won Video (MV)

Soviet history student
Dressed like an overthrown tsar
Say so long to your money worries
Swans sail out your guitar

You know I did it
You know I've done it before
This indiscretion, when I was twenty and four

Pushing daisies in delicate hands
And finding my way
To stave off the sun
The shame beat the drum

Fool's gold, all told
All I offer now
Is plain train stations
No destinations

And it's not easy to say
But I've won the hardest way
And there'll be no conversation
End of road, no explanation

So be it history student
Volunteer my star
You can make me shine like a bad penny
You can cry for a while on my scar

You know I did it
You know I've done it before
The acceleration, or slammed the door

Pushing daisies in delicate hands
And leaving no trace
On another hand-me-down
Kneels in disgrace

Fool's gold, all told
All I offer now
Is old flirtations
And devastations

And it's not easy to say
But I've won the hardest way
And there'll be no conversation
End of road, no explanation

And it's not easy to say
But I've won the hardest way
And there'll be no conversation
End of road, no explanation

So think not of me a saint
And think not of me in heaven
Cause there'll be no conversation
End of road, no explanation