Things I've Learned

The days get shorter as we get older

So much change along the way

Everyone will preach, but only time can teach

The right and wrongs of yesterday

All the things I've learned as the pages turned

Are quite simple, all the same

If it don't sit right, you gotta let it fly

We've got no one else to blame, no

'Cause it's to breathe and really live

Bleed and then forgive

To be kind and ask for nothing in return

How you get up and get goin' when the tide is so damn low

It's in the love you leave behind you when you go

The things I've learned

The things I've learned

It goes by so fast, we gotta make it last

It won't wait for anyone

You've got to trust your heart, right from the start

And don't give up until you're done

No

'Cause it's to breathe and really live

Bleed and then forgive

To be kind and ask for nothing in return

How you get up and get goin' when the tide is so damn low

It's in the love you leave behind you when you go

The things I've learned

The things I've learned

I have burned and I have wept

Many dreams I haven't kept

Many lives I've lived to find my way to you

And there's nothing in this world I wouldn't do

To watch you breathe and really live

Bleed and then forgive

To be kind and ask for nothing in return

To always get up and get goin' when the tide isn't flowing

You'll be the love I leave behind me when I go

The things I've learned

The things I've learned

It's to believe and not let doubt get in your way

The things I've learned

The things I've learned