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 questions, why? Some people have to go through so much more Before they really learn about life's goal The subject is not to be ignored Kick it to a jump I don't want to be the one to tell you how it's gotta be Living is the only way you're 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 Yo, check it, kick this one for the public Now break it down There's so much wrong and negativity Enough for the whole world to see I know there's still a possibility You raise a little kid, he turns out bold It may be from the way you treat him to cope I guess that's how the story's told Tell him what it is I don't want to be the one to tell you how it's gotta be Living is the only way you're 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 I don't want to be the one to tell you how it's gotta be Before your bridges burn Living is the only way you're ever really gonna see If life is how you're living, why you're living life? 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 fooling is the fool that is you Didn't even turn around and check to see your bridges burn I guess it's due to what they say that without living there's no learning And this is for LeJ, the O and the E Mary, Mary, Mary, it's quite contrary Yo, how did you earn your dough? You didn't finish school, you ain't got no job But to the human eye, it's pretty simple They're 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, it's damn, my man's been planned A scam, man, I'll be damned It was the ultimate flim flam People saying that it was easy as pie But little did Dan know he was about to die I don't wanna be the one You've got to live and learn To live how it's gotta be Before your bridges burn Living is the only way You've got to live and learn To live how it's gotta be You've got to live and learn To live how it's gotta be