No one ever tells you   What it's like to love and lose   How it feels to waken   And have breakfast with the blues   How to go on living   How to face another day   No, no one ever tells you the way      No one ever tells you   How it feels to walk alone   Listening for those footsteps   Through the echo of your own   Suddenly it hits you   All those dreams weren't worth a dime   'Cause no one ever tells you in time      Long before   The icy winds of winter   Autumn tells the swallows   Time to fly   So why do we pretend   Till the bitter end   Till it breaks our hearts   To say good-bye   Well      No one ever tells you   That it's just another fling   No one ever warns you   When your heart begins to sing   Someone tells you later   All is fair in love and war   But no one ever tells you before      Long before   Our love boat's torn asunder   We can hear the thunder   Of the falls   So why do we go on   Sailing madly on   Till all we had is gone   Beyond recall   Beyond recall      No one ever tells you   That it's just another fling   No one ever warns you   When your heart begins to sing   Someone tells you later   All is fair in love and war   But no one ever tells you before      It never comes easy   'Cause no one   No one, no one   Ever tells you   Tells you   No one ever tells you before   No one ever tells you before