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)
 You've got to live and learn
 (To tell you how it's gotta be)