It'S The Hard-Knock Life

It's the hard-knock life for us
It's the hard-knock life for us
'Stead of treated, we get tricked
'Stead of kisses, we get kicked
It's the hard-knock life

Got no folks to speak of, so
It's the hard-knock row we ho
Cotton blankets 'stead of wool
Empty bellies 'stead of full
It's the hard-knock life

Don't it feel like the wind is always howlin'?
Don't it seem like there's never any light?
Once a day, don't you wanna throw the towel in?
It's easier than putting up a fight

No one's there when your dreams at night are creepy
No one cares if you grow or if you shrink
No one dries when your eyes get wet and weepy
From the crying you would think this place would sink
Oh-oh-oh

Empty belly life
Rotten, smelly life
Full of sorrow life
No tomorrow life

Santa Claus we never see
Santa Claus, what's that?
Who's he?

No one cares for you a smidge
When you're in an orphanage
It's the hard-knock life

You'll stay up
'Til this dump shines like the top of the Chrysler Building
Kill! Kill!

Yank the whiskers from her chin (little pig droppings)
Jab her with a safety pin (rotten orphans)
Make her drink a Mickey Finn (nobody loves you)
I love you, Miss Hannigan

Get to work
Strip them beds
Scrub that floor
Polish my shoes
And I mean
Start now

It's the hard-knock life for us (mud in your eye)
It's the hard-knock life for us (egg in your beer)
No one cares for you a smidge (hair on your chest)
When you're in an orphanage

It's the hard-knock life
It's the hard-knock life
(It's the hard-knock life)
It's the hard-knock life