Ya know David, I'm tellin you man, it ain't getting any easier Come think of it, it never was easy bein me I know a little ‘bout a lot I need a lot more of what I haven't got I learn everything the hard way, nothin ever came for free I never paid attention but I always paid the price I never learned a lesson till I learned it twice It ain't easy, it ain't easy bein me Now there's a right way and a wrong way All my short cuts all turned out to be the long way My way or the highway, that's the way it had to be A blind man on the corner is better off than me Hindsight's 20/20 and I still refuse to see It ain't easy, it ain't easy bein me If only I had listened when they tried to set me straight I wouldn't be a dollar short and a day too late It could have been so easy, it could have been so sweet To learn my lessons in the schoolhouse instead of on the street Now women, they like my kind It proves love is deaf, and dumb, as well as blind It ain't easy, it ain't easy bein me It ain't easy, it ain't easy bein me