If I was smart I would take your advice
But I am not and so I have to think twice
Never a lesson have I learned
Without first being burned
I was about to tell you the truth
All the mistakes of my wasted youth
Why I didn't make it home on time
But you would have thought I was only lying
And it's, oh, the troubles I've known
I seem to learn everything the hard way
I'm not old enough to be on my own
But I'm much too old to stay
I always believed I ran away
But now I know you told me to go
Maybe it's worked out better this way
What could you say I didn't already know?
And it's, oh, the troubles I've known
I seem to learn everything the hard way
I'm not old enough to be on my own
But I'm much too old to stay
And it's, oh, the troubles we've known
We seem to learn everything the hard way
We're not old enough to be on our own
But we're much too old to stay