Andy Mineo - The Hardway lyrics

[Verse 1: Braille] Sick of the thought of all the battles that I fought Tangled up intestines and my stomach's in a knot When will I learn my lesson wrestlin' with flesh and blood I've fallen so far behind it's like I'm never catching up Ambition in my belly so I take a bigger bite than I can chew But now it's to late to spit out my food Swallow my pride take the bitter pill When I feel hypercritical and hypocritical combined A bad combination Birds of a feather weight afraid of heights So they never elevate or fly The fear of failure Make you scared to even try Cause you so self aware that you're not quite there I learned the hard way like it was the Broadway Show went broad daylight and everybody saw They probably talking right now I hear voices in the background When I turn the track down down Every scar in my repertoire Is a reminder for my weaknes leading me back to Jesus Oh how I need his mercy and grace always We all fall short and I learned that the hard way That the lesson that I learned It don't have to be that way You better work it out I learned the hard way [Verse 2: Andy Mineo] Look, sharing life's ills while the ink spills From the independent well Where do I begin My hands take a walk They talk with my skin Feel the scars from all of them hard lessons of my sin Put it in laymens I thought my game plan was better than the one of who's image I was made in Making my own choices Instead of heading his voice Kid, I went and mixed a cup of that poison Scotch felt so good till the morning But was only scotch tape to what an earthquake had broken Pain outweighed what I gained in enjoyment Dang, and I cold have a-voided it But, you gonna suffer no matter what lane you choose to take The pain of change or the pain of just staying the same So while you wrestle with the choice Think good cause only one leads to joy A loving father tell his good boy Not to put his hand on the pot cause he know the joint hot And we get all burned up he just don't want us burned up But, sometimes it takes a good ow! to get learned up