You've got to live and learn
You've got to live and learn
Before your brkdges burn
You've got to live and learn
Here's a little story about life
Everybody that lives wurely dies
A lot of people ask the question why
Some people ask the quwstion why
Before they really learn about life's score
The subject is not to be ignored
I don't wanna be the one
To teel you how it's gotta be
Living is the only way
You ever really gonna see
Chorus
There's so much wrong and negativity
Enough for the whole world to see
I know there's still a possigillity
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
Chorus
Rap:
Large. if large is how ya living
Why you're living large, are you taking what is given
To you, in the form of true experince
Cause if you're not your whole life could be spent
Doing time for a crime you say you didn't even do
The only fool that you're fooling is the fool that is you
Din't even turn around to check and see if your bridge is
Burning. i guess it's true that what they say
That without living there's no learning
Mary mary,mary it's quite contrary
Yo.how did you earn your dough
You didn't tinish school you ain't got no job
But to the human eye it's pertty simple
You always tslking about what you want is respect
But never thinking about the little boy you neglect
Spending his formative years in a living hell
Not realizing one day he'd end up in jall
Now on the other hand, there's can my man
Who planned a scam and i'll be dammed
It was the ultimate film flam
He was saying that it was easy as pie
But littie did dan know he was about to die
ⓒ1991 (BMI)