To Rise You Gotta Fall

I've been sitting on a porch this Morning, just strumming and a-smoking green Thinking about the highs and lows between now and when I was eighteen When you walk into the garden gate, You're bound to get bitten by a snake You don't know love without a little heartache How can you know good until you know better If you're looking for love, get ready to get her You can't win no more and to rise you gotta fall So I went down to Salinas, to find work and to clear my head Got a job as a hired hand when the harvest time came in But the dirt went dust and the crops dried up If you don't get to market there's no pay-out Yes you don't praise the rain until you've had a drought How can you know good until you know better You're gonna have pain on your way to pleasure And it's the bumpy roads that lead you where you need to go Bring you home So I've been looking for some perspective So I knocked on my momma's door My heart was filled with sorrow And I collapsed right there on the floor She said, girl, you best not cry any longer Life is cruel and just gets harder But what doesn't kill you makes your story longer How can you know good until you know better If you're looking for love, get ready to get her Oh, life's a hurricane But the magic's what remains Can't make a rainbow without a little rain Oh how can you know good until you know better Tell me, if I knew what I know now, I'd write you a letter You can't win no more, and to rise you gotta fall To rise you gotta fall To rise you gotta fall