[Chorus: Kevin Max]
Some people gotta learn the hard way
I guess I'm the kind of guy who has to find out for myself
I had to learn the hard way
I'm on my knees and I'm cryin' for Your help

[Verse 1: TobyMac, TobyMac, Kevin Max & Michael Tait, Kevin Max]
Now I've been high and I've been low
I've been some places that you will not go, yeah
I never thought there would come the day
When I wished I never woulda lived this way, yeah

[Pre-Chorus 1: Michael Tait]
I've been searchin' for a long, long time
I thought the Devil was a friend of mine
I turned my back on everything that was true
And wasted years that bеlong to You, oh

[Chorus: Kevin Max, Kevin Max, Michael Tait & TobyMac, Michael Tait]
Some people gotta lеarn the hard way
And I guess I'm the kinda guy who has to find out for myself
I had to learn the hard way
I'm on my knees and I'm cryin' for Your help, ah-ah ooh-ooh hoo-ooh-hoo

[Verse 2: TobyMac, TobyMac, Kevin Max & Michael Tait, Kevin Max]
It took so long for me to see
That I'm a victim of a nature in me, oh
Left to myself, I realize
I am a maker of my own demise, yeah
[Pre-Chorus 1: Michael Tait & Kevin Max]
But You accept me every time and again (So You say)
And never mention just how selfish I been, no
Why must it always take me so long to see
That I have fallen but You will forgive me?

[Chorus: Kevin Max, Kevin Max, Michael Tait & TobyMac, Michael Tait]
Some people gotta learn the hard way
I guess I'm the kind of guy who has to find out for myself
I had to learn the hard way
And I'm on my knees and I'm cryin'…

[Post-Chorus: Kevin Max & Michael Tait]
Need Your help
No, ah ah-ah-ah ah-ah-ah
Oh, need Your help

[Chorus: Kevin Max, Michael Tait & TobyMac, Kevin Max]
Some people gotta learn the hard way
And I guess I'm the kind of guy who has to find out for myself
I had to learn the hard way, Father
I'm on my knees and I'm cryin'…

[Bridge: TobyMac]
The warning signs are like flares in the night
Still I proceed, my greed is in spite of a fire
I know that's bound to burn
Why is it that I always gotta learn…
[Outro: TobyMac, Michael Tait, Kevin Max & Michael Tait, Kevin Max]
The hard way? The hard way (Oh-oh)
I had to learn the hard way (Yeah)
The hard way, the hard way (Whoa-oa oh-oh ho)
I had to learn the hard way (Here we go, sing)
*skats*
Yeah, the hard way
*skats*
Yeah, the hard way
You see, Jesus, He gave it all, yo!
Oh-oh
He gave it all, yo!
He gave it all, yo!
Oh-oh
He gave it on and on and on and on and on and on and on!
Oh-oh
Oh, yeah, He died
Oh-oh
He died, He died, oh
Oh-oh
He rose again
Oh-oh
He rose again, sha-la-la sha-la-la, oh, yeah
Oh-oh
Oh