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 score The subject is not to be ignored Kick it to them Joe I don't wanna 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 Ah yeah Y'all 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 cold I guess that's how the story's told Tell them what it is I don't wanna 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 wanna be the one You've got to live and learn To tell you how it's gotta be Before your bridges burn Living is the only way You've got to live and learn That you're ever gonna see Large If large is how ya living Why you're living large 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 to check and see if your bridge is burning I guess it's true what they say that without living there's no learning And this is from the J 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 You'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 there's Dan my man Who planned a scam and I'll be damned It was the ultimate flim flam He was saying that it was easyas pie But little did Dan You've got to live and learn know he was about to die I don't wanna be the one You've got to live and learn To tell you how it's gotta be Before your bridges burn Living is the only way You've got to live and learn That you're ever gonna see You've got to live and learn I don't wanna be the one You've got to live and learn To tell you how it's gotta be Before your bridges burn Living is the only way You've got to live and learn That you're ever gonna see You've got to live and learn I don't wanna be the one