the hardway

ya

you wish the hard way

you'll have to learn the hard way

but it's like this

yo

some people gotta learn the hard way

i guess i'm the kinda guy who's got to find out for myself

i had to learn the hard way

father

i'm on my knees and i'm cryin' for help

the warnin' signs like flares in the night

i proceed with my greed indeed but now in spite of the fire

i knows to burn i never learn

as the world turns on its axis i'm like saul on the road to damascus

i'm like broken fragments of broken glasses

can't see the facts' from the fiction

god's voice now speakin'

but i never listened got me wishin'

i never took the hard way

'cause every day is a hard day

turn my heart away

'cause god be feeling like he's far away

jesus take the scars away 'cause life be mad hard today

i'm tryin' hard not to sway

selfish way's finally catchin' up to me

but if i fall

i know you's catchin' me

i know you's catchin' me

yo

i know you's catchin' me

but there's times i have to learn the hard way tough

like this

some people gotta learn the hard way

i guess i'm the kinda guy who's got to find out for myself

i had to learn the hard way

father

i'm on my knees and i'm cryin' for help

i've been high and low but the stories told

my eyes can show that i walked the hard ways road

when it's my time to go i'll stand toe to toe

to one who grips my soul

whose never lettin' go

life's so cold but so many times

i shed so many tears from so many eyes

spoke so many lies

i was the maker of my own demise

my own face i couldn't recognize

woke up one day and realized my compromised lifestyle

since the birth canal to a juvenile yo

this kid was wild

sometimes it hurts to smile but jesus thought

to make it worth my while i keep it versatile

like i was could write spanish backwards in a cursive style

but in the meanwhile to the mean time

i leave the blind to lead the blind

leave the past way far behind

all the way out of sight and out of mind

some people gotta learn the hard way

i guess i'm the kinda guy who's got to find out for myself

i had to learn the hard way

father

i'm on my knees and i'm cryin'

i'm cryin' for help

for help

i'm cryin'

i'm cryin'

for help

for help

for help

cryin'

i'm cryin'

some people gotta learn the hard way

the hard way

the hard way

some people gotta learn the hard way

the hard way

the hard way

some people gotta learn the hard way

i guess i'm the kinda guy who's got to find out for myself

i had to learn the hard way

father

i'm on my knees and i'm cryin'

some people gotta learn the hard way

i guess i'm the kinda guy who's got to find out for myself

i had to learn the hard way

father

i'm on my knees and i'm cryin'

some people gotta learn the hard way

i guess i'm the kinda guy who's got to find out for myself

i had to learn the hard way

father

i'm on my knees and i'm cryin'