Lessons Learned (song)

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“Lessons Learned”
Single by Tracy Lawrence from the album Lessons Learned
Released	1999 (1999)
Format	CD Single
Genre	Country
Length	2:57
Label	Atlantic
Writer(s)	Paul Nelson, Larry Boone, Tracy Lawrence
Tracy Lawrence singles chronology
"While You Sleep" (1998) "Lessons Learned" (2000) "Lonely" (2000)
Lessons Learned track listing
"From The Inside Out" (3) "Lessons Learned" (4) "The Man I Was" (5)

"Lessons Learned" is a single by American country music artist Tracy Lawrence. Released as the lead-off single to his album of the same title, it peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart.

[edit] Content

The song's narrator is a young man who was accused of stealing candy in a store when he was 10 years old. His father had shown him wrong from right, and taught him things that he should not do. He had then looked back at:

Lessons learned and they sure run deep

They don't go away and they don't come cheap

Oh, there is no way around it

'Cause this world turns on lessons learned.

In the second verse, the narrator describes how much he loved his grandpa because he taught him to do more than his father did.

[edit] Chart performance

The song debuted at #70 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart dated November 6, 1999, and charted for 29 weeks on that chart. It reached a peak of #3 on the chart dated April 1, 2000. It was also Lawrence's first and only Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.

[edit] Charts

Chart (1999-2000)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	3
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	40