When It Hurts

I've been thinking about all the times we just missed it

Every time we took the can and kicked it down the road

Dreams as far as the gas is to the floor board

A few words on top of three chords from leaving home

Well I choose the hurt and the hard times

The bruises and lonely long drives

The calling you from the roadside to let you know

That I know it's been a long year

And I wish that you could be here

But I'm not one for taking the easy way out

I learn best when it hurts

I've been lost and found along a highway

Forty-One on up to Green Bay in the snow

We could stay here, or put a few miles on the rearview mirror

Darling don't pretend like you didn't know

'Cause I choose the hurt and the hard times

The bruises and lonely long drives

The calling you from the roadside to let you know

That I know it's been a long year

And I wish that you could be here

But I'm not one for taking the easy way out

I learn best when it hurts

Couldn't stay here, no

Couldn't hold out

It never looked right but now I'm seeing clear

I knew I'd let you down anyhow

I choose the hurt and the hard times

The bruises and lonely long drives

The calling you from the roadside to let you know

That I know it's been a long year

And I wish that you could be here

But I'm not one for taking the easy way out

I learn best when it hurts