Lyrics

VRS 1:
She’s sittin’ by the window
when he walks into the room
Holding twelve red roses in full bloom
He puts them in her arms and says
I love you so
Happy anniversary from sixty years ago
She turns to softly ask him for his name
A tear rolls down his cheek and then
he whispers it again
CHORUS:
Sometimes love is an uphill climb
It’s a lonely road to follow, a heavy load to bear

Sometimes love is patient and kind
Sometimes love is an uphill climb

VRS 2:
She whispers to her babies
“Everything will be okay”

But wonders how it all turned out this way

Meanwhile she is staring at a dusty photograph
trying to remember when
he smiled or when he laughed

Then God took what was left of love undone
And Carefully He wove two broken families
Into one

CHORUS:
Sometimes love is an uphill climb
It’s a lonely road to follow, a heavy load to bear

Sometimes love is patient and kind
Sometimes love is an uphill climb

BRIDGE:
Winners and losers
Used and the users
On the edge of town

Fathers and mothers, sons and brothers
Gathering around

Somewhere there to mock the stranger
Somewhere there to morn the loss

But everybody watched as he picked up the wooden cross

CHORUS:
Sometimes love is an uphill climb
It’s a lonely road to follow, a heavy load to bear

Sometimes love is patient and kind
Sometimes love is an uphill climb

WORDS AND MUSIC BY JANET PASCHAL, JOEL LINDSEY. © 2018 SUNSET GALLERY MUSIC (BMI)/DAYSPRING MUSIC/SONGS FROM THE INSIDE/SEA SMOKE MUSIC (BMI)