Reflection of My Life...

Joe Public - Live and Learn (1992)

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 question 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

I don`t wanna be the one
To tell you how it`s gotta be
Living is the only way
You 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

There`s so much wrong and negativity
Enough for the whole world to see
I know there`s still 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

I don`t wanna be the one
To tell you how it`s gotta be
Living is the only way
You 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
You`ve got to live and learn
Before your bridges burn
You`ve got to live and learn

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 experience
`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 fooing is the fool that is you
Didn`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 finish school you ain`t got not job
But to the human eye it`s pretty simple
You always talking 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 jail
Now on the other hand, there`s Dan, my man
Who planned a scam and I`ll be damned
It was the ultimate film flam
He was saying that it was easy as pie
But little, did Dan know he was about to die?

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
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
You`ve got to live and learn
Before your bridges burn
You`ve got to live and learn.........