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"The Hardest Part Is the Night" Early Lyrics​

August 1984

Handwritten early lyrics-in-progress for "The Hardest Part Is the Night," found inside the Tokyo Road Ideas notebook. ​

Jon said that the inspiration behind the song was his first year living in New York. "I made fifty bucks a week and slept on floors."​

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