Live and Learn

You've got to live and learn

You've got to live and learn

Before your bridges burn

You've got to live and learn

Here's a little story about life

Everybody that lives surely dies

A lot of people

ask the questions why

Some people have to go

through so much more

Before they really learn

about life's score

The subject is not to be ignored

Kick it to 'em Joe

I don't wanna be the one

To tell you how it's gotta be

Livin' is the only way

You're ever really gonna see

You've got to live and learn

You've got to live and learn

Before your bridges burn

You've got to live and learn

Ah yeah

Y'all check it

Kick this one for the Public

Now break it down

There's so much wrong and negativity

Enough for the whole world to see

I know there's still a possibility

You raise a little kid

he turns out bold

It may be from the

way you treat him cold

I guess that's how the story's told

Tell 'em what it is

I don't wanna be the one

To tell you how it's gotta be

Livin' is the only way

You're ever really gonna see

You've got to live and learn

You've got to live and learn

Before your bridges burn

You've got to live and learn

You've got to live and learn

I don't wanna be the one

You've got to live and learn

To tell you how it's gotta be

Before your bridges burn

Livin' is the only way

You've got to live and learn

That you're ever gonna see

Large If large is how ya livin'

Why you're livin' large

are you takin' what is given

To you in the form

of true experience

'Cause if you're not your

whole life could be spent

Doin' time for a crime

you say you didn't even do

The only fool that you're foolin'

is the fool that is you

Didn't even turn around

to check and see if your

bridge is burnin'

I guess it's true what they

say that without livin'

there's no learnin'

And this is from the J

the O and the E

Mary Mary Mary

it's quite contrary

Yo' how did you

earn your dough

You didn't finish school

you ain't got no job

But to the human

eye it's pretty simple

You're always talkin' about

what you want is respect

But never thinkin' about

the little boy you neglect

Spendin' his formative

years in a livin' hell

Not realizin' one day

he'd end up in jail

Now on the other hand

There's Dan my man

Who planned a scam

and I'll be damned

It was the ultimate flim flam

He was sayin' that it

was easy as pie

But little did Dan know

he was about to die

You've got to live and learn

I don't wanna be the one

You've got to live and learn

To tell you how it's gotta be

Before your bridges burn

Livin' is the only way

You've got to live and learn

That you're ever gonna see

You've got to live and learn

I don't wanna be the one

You've got to live and learn

To tell you how it's gotta be

Before your bridges burn

Livin' is the only way

You've got to live and learn

That you're ever gonna see

You've got to live and learn

I don't wanna be the one