Lesson Learned

I posted this song over a year ago. Unfortunately, the lyrics still speak to me today. I have found that life is the harshest teacher. She doesn't give extra credit and there are no do-overs. The lessons you learn are permanent and you can harbor as many regrets as you like, but none of them will get you anywhere but sorrow.

Lesson Learned by Alicia Keys

(feat. John Mayer)

He broke my heart

And now it's raining

Just to rub it in

I'm at your door

I feel so crazy about it

You'll say I told you so

You knew he had to go

I finally came 'round

I'm back on solid ground

Can't let it get me down

It's alright (x3)

(Chorus)

Yes, I was burned but I called it a lesson learned

Mistake overturned 

So I called it a lesson learned

My soul has returned

So I call it a lesson learned

Another lesson learned

Sometimes 

Some lies

Can take a minute

To fully realize

His tears

Your eyes

Thirty seconds to apologize

You give it one more chance

Just like the times before

But he already knows you'd give a hundred more

Until that night in bed

You wake up in a sweat 

You're racing to the door

Can't Take it Anymore

Chorus

Life ain't perfect if you don't know what the struggle's for

Falling down ain't falling down unless you cry when you hit the floor

It's called the past cause I'm getting past

I ain't nothing like I was before

You oughta see me now.

Chorus

End.