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Artist: Dan Fogelberg
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Lessons Learned
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Lessons Learned
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You
With the past at your back
And the future unsure
Asked
For the chance to try
Love once more.
Well aware of the consequences
Should the dream fall through
You threw down you last defenses
Wanting to try something new
Wanting to try something new.
You found me
In a sea of confusion
Drifting with the tide
Living
On love that had long since died.
But everytime that I touch you, baby
I feel a little more alive
And Im reminded how much youve
Made me
Believe in the love that survives
Believe in the love that survives.
Lessons learned are like
Bridges burned
You only need to cross them but once
Is the knowledge gained
Worth the price of the pain?
Are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?
Are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?
Borne
On the first warms winds of
Feelings newly found
Fly
But remember
Dont look down
Take as much as you think you ought to
Give just as much as you can
Dont forget what your failures have taught you
Or else youll learn them all over again
Or else youll have to learn them
All over again.
Lessons learned are like
Bridges burned
You only need to cross them but once
Is the knowledge gained
Worth the price of the pain?
Are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?
Are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?
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Dan Fogelberg performs "Lessons Learned", and this lyric page sits inside the Dan Fogelberg catalog on LyroVerse.
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