The Hard Way

If I was smart I would take your advice

But I am not and so I have to think twice

Never a lesson have I learned

Without first being burnedOh, the troubles I've known!

I seem to learn everything the hard way

I'm not old enough to be on my own

But I'm much too old to stayI was about to tell you the truth

All the mistakes of my wasted youth

And why I didn't make it home on time

But you would have thought

I was only lyingI always believed I ran away

But now I know I was told to go

Maybe it's worked out better this way

What could you say I didn't already know?