I'm not the fool I once was
I learned from heartaches
what to address
It's always love's lessons,
they're the hardest to learn
Play in the sun too long,
you will get burned
I'm still seeing red,
but my heart's not quite dead
I still feel I'm willing to try
But I'm no longer an innocent girl,
I've had my taste of this tasteless world
My heart was once open
as a clear blue sky
But streets have grown cloudy
and heavy clouds cry
Polluted my head,
but my heart's not quite dead
I still feel I'm willing to try
Try to be good, try to be strong
I try to stay hopeful
that it's not been too long
Since I was a child
with the world before me
But we all know children live in worlds of me
And I'm not the child of that past,
I learned the hard way I grew up fast
The school of those books
Can never compare
To the heartaches of life
That have made me all too weak
Lessons of grief
I've passed and survived
I still feel my heart can revive
And learn to give love,
learn to give trust
Learn it could be so full
and still it would not burst
And feel like it's young,
young as fresh snow
But we all know winter's
when the harshest winds blow
No longer an innocent girl
I've had my test of this tasteless world
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