The Hard Way

You had to learn the hard way

What everybody know

Y’know I hate to be the one

To say I told you so

You took the hard way

the hard way

The hardest way to go



Don’t forget I said it

Please take this tip from me

‘Cause I see where you’re headed

And that way lies misery

You took the hard way

the hard way

If only you could see



Life could be so easy

And trouble was never too hard to find

It’ll find you in time

Life could be so easy

It don’t hafta be a losing game

Any fool will tell you the same



Advice is hard to swallow

From anybody else

But mine won’t ring so hollow

‘Cause I been there myself

I took the hard way

the hard way

So I wish you well