Lawrence Ferlingetti Follow

I was ten years old the day I got caught
With some dime store candy that I never bought
I hung my head and I faced the wall
As daddy showed me wrong from right

He said, ?This hurts me more than it does you
There's just some things son, that you just don't do
Is anything I'm sayin' getting through?
?But daddy I can see the light?

Oh lessons learned, man, they sure run deep
They don't go away and they don't come cheap
Oh, there's no way around it
'Cause this world turns on lessons learned

Granddaddy was a man I loved
He bought me my first ball and glove
Even taught me how to drive his truck
Circling that old town square

He spoke of life with a slow southern drawl
But I never heard him 'cause I knew it all
But I sure listened when I got the call
That he was no longer there

Oh, lessons learned, man, they sure run deep
They don't go away and they don't come cheap
Oh, there's no way around it
'Cause this world turns on lessons learned

Oh, lessons learned, man they sure run deep
They don't go away and they don't come cheap
Oh, there's no way around it
'Cause this world turns on lessons learned