The Hard Way

[Verse 1]

Boys like you were born to waste

You never listen to a word I say

And if you think you're here to mess around, you're making a big mistake

'Cause you're gonna find out the hard way

You're gonna find out the hard way

[Verse 2]

No matter what I do or say

You're much too dumb to educate

One day life's gonna turn around and slap you in the face

Then you're gonna find out the hard way you took the hard way

Gonna take the hard way

[Refrain]

Well, you'll do it your way and I'll do it my way

And we'll see who's the one to survive

You'll find that with no foundation or qualifications

There's no way that you can get by, no

There's no way you can get by

[Verse 3]

Why don't you take the easy way?

Why don't you co-operate?

Don't just sit there and vegetate

Do you want to end up illiterate? Come on now

[Instrumental Break]

[Refrain]

You think that life's a vacation and you've no inclination

To dust away the cobwebs of your mind

Now it's time for confrontation and I'm tired of being patient

So I've got to be cruel to be kind, yeah

I've got to be cruel to be kind

[Verse 4]

I'm wasting my vocation teaching you to write neat

When you're only fit to sweep the street

Your intellect is such that it requires a killer's touch

So I'm gonna play it your way, you can take the hard way

Gonna take the hard way

[Outro]

You can take the hard way

Gonna take the hard way

You're gonna take the hard way

You're gonna—