Details of
The Hard Way
by Copperhead Jones


Lyrics Writer: C.W. Duncan


Lyrics

VERSE 1

 

It was dark inside the truck

It was cold outside that night

I had the first flat tire of

My young country life

 

Fourteen and all alone

On a backwoods Texas road

I didn't know what to do

But I was about to find out
 

 

CHORUS 1
 

Life can come too soon

Like my old man used to say

Sometimes the only way to learn

Is the hard way

Yea, nothing makes you learn

Like a lesson earned

A lesson learned the hard way

 

 

VERSE 2
 

It was hot inside the truck

It was cold outside that night

I had my first shot at love

In my young romantic life

 

Seventeen and rounding third

With a blue-eyed Texas girl

I didn't know what to do

But I was about to find out

 

CHORUS 2
 

Life can come too soon

Like my old man used to say

Sometimes the only way to learn

Is the hard way

Yea, nothing makes you learn

Like a lesson earned

A lesson learned the hard way

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BRIDGE
 

I am older now

With children of my own

I'll do my best to show them

All that I have known

 

I'll do my best to tell them

What this world's about

They don't know what's coming

But they're going to find out

 

 

CHORUS 3
 

Life can come too soon

Like my old man used to say

Sometimes the only way to learn

Is the hard way

Yea, nothing makes you learn

Like a lesson earned

Like a lesson learned the hard way

 

 

END

 

Never quit

You won't forget

A lesson earned the hard way

Yea, a lesson learned the hard way