Things I Didn't Know

Forgive me lord I swear

I'm getting better in my years

Been trying to open up my ears to the things I didn't know

Things I didn't know

Been watching pap get old

And prying to stories left untold

Been learning I never had control over things I didn't know

Over things I didn't know

I didn't know a cardinal singing in the wind could be a loving message from my best friend

I didn't know the best of times would run so thin

I didn't know

What's this world been coming to

People's bills are overdue

There's young men dying in their rooms

From things they didn't know

Things they didn't know

Been working all their lives

That sure sounds a lot like mine

It's getting harder to survive

With the things we didn't know

With things we didn't know

I didn't know where older folks were coming from

Telling all us boys to live while we were young

I didn't know how hard it'd be to love someone

I didn't know

I didnt know

I didn't know

I didn't know that all the things I'm running from

Were all the same to someone else who's already done

But nobody knows how hard it is to lose someone

Until they know