Hard Pill To Swallow

Hard Pill to Swallow is the lead single from Blacklite District's 2018 album Through The Ages, written, sung and produced by lead vocalist Kyle Pfeiffer. It premiered on Billboard on October 10, 2018, of which its official music video released on YouTube the same day; the song gained considerable popularity, garnering 922.1K views as of January 2021. The video was directed and edited by DZFX Media, ownership of the record label AK19 Entertainment.

Such was many previous songs of the band, on November 17, 2018, Hard Pill to Swallow was adapted into a Minecraft Original Music Video by Rainimator in their partnership as part of an ongoing saga. The song was reported by Billboard's Kevin Rutherford as beginning a "new era" for Blacklite District, "ditching the 3-D theatrics in favor of a live-action video".

Lyrics
There's a long road in front of ya

There's a hard life behind ya

There's a war been waged inside ya

You got big footsteps to follown

You got a soul that's barely hollow

And that's a hard pill to swallow

(Hard pill to swallow

Hard pill to swallow

Hard pill to swallow

Hard pill to swallow, whoa)

When you were younger just a bother, always felt so scared

Didn't know how to take it but you always dared

And now you try to act like you never cared

Feelin' halfway guilty 'cause my life was spared

It feels just like a curse and I'm always to blame

Shivers down my spine when I say your name

Since I was a kid you been bigger than fame

I'd like to see the scar that you put in my brain

Early in my life I was put to the test

I had to make some choices or forget about the rest

And when I speak this fire you get nothin' but the best

Let me tell you somethin' that you better not forget

There's a long road in front of ya

There's a hard life behind ya

There's a war been waged inside ya

You got big footsteps to follow

You got a soul that's barely hollow

And that's a hard pill to swallow

(Hard pill to swallow

Hard pill to swallow

Hard pill to swallow

Hard pill to swallow, whoa)

The trauma from your mama nearly twenty years old

And your father made it harder with the soul that he sold

You know where they both went and you're ready to go

What happened, how did everything turn so cold?

We can talk about it till I'm turnin' blue in the face

I can laugh about it, joke about it never the same

I can't keep pretendin' it don't cause any pain

It's a never-ending cycle that just can't be tamed

Early in my life I was put to the test

I had to make some choices or forget about the rest

And when I speak this fire you get nothin' but the best

Let me tell you somethin' that you better not forget

There's a long road in front of ya

There's a hard life behind ya

There's a war been waged inside ya

You got big footsteps to follow

You got a soul that's barely hollow

And that's a hard pill to swallow

(Hard pill to swallow

Hard pill to swallow

Hard pill to swallow

Hard pill to swallow, whoa

Hard pill to swallow

Hard pill to swallow

Hard pill to swallow

Hard pill to swallow, whoa)

Trivia
This song got To You're Welcome