No One Ever Tells You - Ruth Brown

No one ever tells you what’s like to love and lose

How it feels to waken and have breakfast with the blues

How to go on living, how to face another day

No one ever tells you the way

No one ever tells you how it feels to walk alone

Listening for those footsteps through the echo of your own

Suddenly it hits you all those dreams not worth a dime

Cause no one ever tells you in time

Long before the icy winds of winter

Autumn tells the swallows, time to fly

Why did she pretend till the bitter end

Till it broke my heart to say goodbye

And no one ever tells you that it’s just another fling

No one ever warns you when your heart begins to sing

Someone tells you later all is fair in love and war

But no one ever tells you before

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No one ever tells you that it’s just another fling

No one ever warns you when your heart begins to sing

Someone tells you 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