(Toby McKeehan)
some people gotta learn the hardway
I guess I'm the kinda guy that has to find out for myself
I had to learn the hardway, father
I'm on my knees and I'm crying for help
now I've been high and I've been low
I've been some places that you will not go
I never thought there would come the day
when I wished I never w
All The Same To Me lyrics

met a man on a train near Santa Fe
who was dead a minute as a child
fell off a dock
he couldn't swim and his heart stopped
a gold snake slid from th
ould've lived this way
but I've been searching for a long time
I thought the devil was a friend of mine
I turned my back on everything that was true
and wasted years that belonged to you
some people gotta learn the hardway
I guess I'm the kinda guy that has to find out for myself
I had to learn the hardway, father
I'm on my knees and I'm crying for help
it to
Oblique lyrics

And I bet you wonder why
I can't look you in the eye
When I see you sometimes at the show....
And I always wonder how
you can keep your head about
As we pass y
k so long for me to see
that I'm a victim of nature and me
left to myself, I realize
I am the maker of my own demise
but you accept me every time and again
and never mention just how selfish I've been
why must it always take me so long to see
that I have fallen, but you will forgive me
some people gotta learn the hardway
I guess I'm the kinda guy that has to 
Promised lyrics

In a pool of tears, that are my own, I am sitting still crying. So many years and still no sign, so many years I am waiting. You promised me you would wait for me, but
ind out for myself
I had to learn the hardway, father
I'm on my knees and I'm crying for help
the warning signs are like flares in the night
still I proceed my greed is in spite
of the fire I know that's bound to burn
why is it that I always gotta learn the hardway
the hardway
I had to learn the hardway
the hardway
the hardway
I had to learn the hardway