[Verse]
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 livin', how to face another day
No one ever tells you the way
No one ever tells you how it feels to walk alone
Listenin' for those footsteps through the echo of your own
Suddenly it hits ya, all those dreams weren't worth a dime
But no one ever tells you in time

[Pre-Chorus]
Long before the icy winds of Winter
Autumn tells the swallows "Time to fly"
Why did she pretend until the bitter end
'Til it broke my heart to say goodbye?

[Chorus]
No one ever tells you that it's just another fling
No one ever warns you when your heart begins to sing
Someone tells ya later "All is fair in love and war"
But no one ever tells you before

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
No one ever tells you that it's just another fling
No one ever warns you when your heart begins to sing
Someone tells ya later "All is fair in love and war"
But no one ever tells you before, "It never comes easy"
No one ever tells you before