Lessons Learned

Prelude - Vocal group harmonies

Mist rolling slow over tired streets

Last promise left at someone else’s feet

Watch it flicker, watch it fade

All that’s sacred slips away

Empty windows echo old regret

Braided voices I can’t forget

Carry me under, soft and low

Sing me sorrow only shadows know

Verse 1

Shadows linger where sunlight failed

Every story stained, every word curtailed

Dropped dreams, I kept those, counting them twice

Every morning mocking me, silent advice

One choice, two broken arms

Three faded photographs, four false alarms

How many days have I spent in disguise

How many ways can a promise die

Chorus

Lessons learned — burned my hands

Left me standing, misunderstood

Tangled truth I can't untwist

Shaken, shattered, still I stand

Lessons learned (lessons learned)

Again and again (again and again)

Oh, lessons learned

Verse 2

I tried too hard, chasing names

Faced the faces, lost the games

Pour rain on ashes, hope it grows

Silent as secret scars nobody knows

Falling farther from the plan

Another chance slips through my hands

I say I'm ready, say I don't mind

But some wounds walk with you, all through time

Chorus

Lessons learned — burned my hands

Left me standing, misunderstood

Tangled truth I can't untwist

Shaken, shattered, still I stand

Lessons learned (lessons learned)

Again and again (again and again)

Oh, lessons learned

Bridge

We tried, we failed, we found — we lost

We risked everything. Paid that cost

But every crack, every fracture, every scar

Built us up, brought us this far

Chorus

Lessons learned — burned my hands

Left me standing, misunderstood

Tangled truth I can't untwist

Shaken, shattered, still I stand

Lessons learned (lessons learned)

Again and again (again and again)

Lessons learned

Outro

Again and again — Oh, lessons learned

Just lessons learned

Chorus

Lessons learned — burned my hands

Left me standing, misunderstood

Tangled truth I can't untwist

Shaken, shattered, still I stand

Lessons learned (lessons learned)

Again and again (again and again)

Oh, lessons learned

Guitar Solo