To Rise You Gotta Fall

I've been sitting on a porch this
 morning, just strumming and a-smoking green
 Thinking about the highs and lows between now and when I was eighteen
 When you walk into the garden gate,
 you're bound to get bitten by a snake
 You don't know love without a little heartache
 How can you know good until you know better
 If you're looking for love, get ready to get her
 You can't win no more and to rise you gotta fall
 So I went down to Salinas, to find work and to clear my head
 Got a job as a hired hand when the harvest time came in
 But the dirt went dust and the crops dried up
 If you don't get to market there's no pay-out
 Yes you don't praise the rain until you've had a drought
 How can you know good until you know better
 You're gonna have pain on your way to pleasure
 And it's the bumpy roads that lead you where you need to go
 Bring you home
 So I've been looking for some perspective
 So I knocked on my momma's door
 My heart was filled with sorrow
 And I collapsed right there on the floor
 She said, girl, you best not cry any longer
 Life is cruel and just gets harder
 But what doesn't kill you makes your story longer
 How can you know good until you know better
 If you're looking for love, get ready to get her
 Oh, life's a hurricane
 But the magic's what remains
 Can't make a rainbow without a little rain
 Oh how can you know good until you know better
 Tell me, if I knew what I know now, I'd write you a letter
 You can't win no more, and to rise you gotta fall
 To rise you gotta fall
 To rise you gotta fall