You can't break your eggs to count your chickens   And you can't break your neck to keep your ducks all in a row   But don't think every chance you take, has to mean a new mistake   It ain't necessarily so      Now depending on the soil and the season   you can plant a seed and you can watch it grow   But you can't have a guarantee 'cause everything that aught to be   Ain't necessarily so      I laugh when I can and I live with the rest   I learned that holdin' on means lettin' go   I try to be a friend to the person on my left   They say you just can't be too careful who you know   But that ain't necessarily so      I'd like to have more faith in human logic   Basin' all the rules on the proof that you can show   But I can't take my guesses back that I based on all those facts   That ain't necessarily so      And every time I follow what I'm feelin'   I end up in the same place my heart would have me go   If there's one rule of life I trust, it's everything outside your gut   Ain't necessarily so      I laugh when I can and I live with the rest   I learned that holdin' on means lettin' go   I try to be a friend to the person on my left   They say you just can't be too careful who you know   But that ain't necessarily so      I laugh when I can and I live with the rest   I learned that holdin' on means lettin' go   I try to be a friend to the person on my left   They say you just can't be too careful who you know   But that ain't necessarily so