the hard way

Oh my head Lately my eyes have been blood-shot red I'm lookin' for somewhere to hide Could you tell me where I needed to go? Oh my head Lately all my thoughts are arrivin' dead I drift where the sea meets the sky Could you tell me what I needed to know? Oh Maybe I always learn things the hard way I learn best from my mistakes The road I took was the wrong one It all works out in the long run Maybe there's no such thing as a rewind There's no way to go back in time I learn best from the replay I always learn things the hard way Words were said Now even the pain wants peace instead I bury my thoughts in the tide Could you tell me where I needed to go? On my bed Echoes of the trues and the lies we said The ocean, the mirror, the sky Tell me everything I needed to know Oh, maybe I can't keep blamin' it all on luck When I complain and I self-destruct Maybe it's me with the problems Stuck lookin' at you tryin' to solve 'em Maybe there's no such thing as a rewind There's no way to go back in time I learn best from the replay I learn things the hard way 'Cause maybe the learning comes from the mistake There's no beauty without pain No one said it would be easy We can't undo the things we said Even if I could, would you believe me? No one said it would be easy Maybe the song we sang was just out of time Maybe we could give it one more try One more try, yeah, yeah Oh, maybe the small violin and the tissue Hopin' to put it behind me and kiss you Singin' along to the chorus of "fix you" All along it was me with the issues Maybe there's no such thing as an easy fix In love or war or politics Maybe it's time that I dealt with this Finally learned things the hard way (Maybe there's no such thing) as a free ride (Maybe there's no such thing) as a free way (Maybe there's no such thing) as a rewind (Maybe there's no such thing) I know why you walked away (Maybe there's no such thing) as a quick fix (Maybe there's no such thing) but I don't wanna live like this (Maybe there's no such thing) I always learn things the hard way