Ya know David, I'm tellin you man, it ain't getting any 
easier
Come think of it, it never was easy bein me

I know a little ‘bout a lot 
I need a lot more of what I haven't got
I learn everything the hard way, nothin ever came for 
free
I never paid attention but I always paid the price 
I never learned a lesson till I learned it twice
It ain't easy, it ain't easy bein me

Now there's a right way and a wrong way
All my short cuts all turned out to be the long way
A blind man on the corner is better off than me
Hindsight's 20/20 and I still refuse to see
It ain't easy, it ain't easy bein me

If only I had listened when they tried to set me straight
I wouldn't be a dollar short and a day too late
It could have been so easy, it could have been so sweet
To learn my lessons in the schoolhouse instead of on the 
street
Now women, they like my kind
It proves love is deaf, and dumb, as well as blind
It ain't easy, it ain't easy bein me
It ain't easy, it ain't easy bein me