The Hardest Lesson

So where do you get your loving from
When your heart is all black but your head is strong?
And where do you find your reasons now
When you're walking alone in the night?

And what's the matter with the life you're given
When the feelings all gone and you've been mistreated
But what they say is it's better to lose
Than to live your life in the dark

And I guess it's just the hardest lesson to be learned
I guess it's just the hard way to fall
And all this time well I've been guessing baby
After all this time she said

Don't start a fire if you can't take the burn
Don't lose it all just to see what you learned
Don't fly high if you don't wanna come down down down

Don't feel the pleasure if you can't take the pain
Don't lose it all just to see what you gained
Don't fly high if you don't wanna come down down down hey hey ya

The heart of life's got a crooked way
It'll beat you to the ground just to watch you say
You shoulda known that you shoulda said
All the things you saw in the light

But now and then when you lose your way
You can pull it back together like a figure 8
And so you wait for another day
Just to find it was all in your mind

And I guess it's just the hardest lesson to be learned
I guess it's just the hard way to fall
And all this time well I've been guessing baby
After all this time she said

Don't start a fire if you can't take the burn
Don't lose it all just to see what you learned
Don't fly high if you don't wanna come down down down

Don't feel the pleasure if you can't take the pain
Don't lose it all just to see what you gained
Don't fly high if you don't wanna come down down down hey hey ya

And I remember all the things you said
When I couldn't stay lost just to get myself found
I remember all those words you said
But I guess it's just the way that your life
Can get you so high just to pull you so low
I guess it's just the way it always goes

Don't start a fire if you can't take the burn
Don't lose it all just to see what you learned
Don't fly high if you don't wanna come down down down

Don't start a fire if you can't take the burn
Don't lose it all just to see what you learned
Don't fly high if you don't wanna come down down down

Don't lose it all just to see what you gained
Don't fly high if you don't wanna come down down down hey hey ya