I have failed and I have fallen, cried till I was bawling   Been down so low my face was on the tiles   Where the cold against my lips, hollow like your kiss   Was empty as a North Dakota mile   I tried leaving without losing but the hardest part was choosing   Which direction I would run when I was free   And the only thing I’ve learned is that I haven’t learned a thing      I’ve drank one too many glasses, I’ve been bruised and I’ve been battered   By mistakes I never bothered to avoid   And friends who tried to offer advice I never followed   Grew tired of watching all that I’d destroyed   So I faked my best foot forward, while sneaking backwards toward   The center where the truth wouldn’t sting   And the only thing I’ve learned is that I haven’t learned a thing      We live we yearn we flame we burn we cry   We crawl we run we reach to touch the sky   And though our wings are made of wax   We try to fly to close to the light   Trying to get it right      You stood there like a stoic and I felt so claustrophobic   Wishing you’d give me a reason not to leave   Your silence closed in tighter and I felt like an outsider   In the home that was my haven all those years   But I knew that I was certain, like the dropping of a curtain,   When I saw you’d taken off that ring   Guess the only thing I’ve learned is that I haven’t learned a thing      Chorus   I have failed and I have fallen, cried till I was crawling   Been running for so long that I believed   That the thin ice where I landed was steadier than where I’d been   And now I’m not sure what’s in front of me   But in the falling and the flying and the living and the dying   Is how we carve our names inside this dream   The only thing I’ve learned is that I haven’t learned a thing   Maybe the only thing to learn is that you never learn a thing