Lessons Learned (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Lessons Learned


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Artist = Tracy Lawrence
Album = Lessons Learned
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B-side =
Released = start date|1999
Format = CD Single
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Genre = Country
Length = 2:57
Label = Atlantic
Writer = Paul Nelson, Larry Boone, Tracy Lawrence
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Last single = "While You Sleep"
(1998)
This single = "Lessons Learned"
(2000)
Next single = "Lonely"
(2000)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Lessons Learned
Type = Studio
prev_track = "From The Inside Out"
prev_no = 3
this_track = "Lessons Learned"
track_no = 4
next_track = "The Man I Was"
next_no = 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.

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 che

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

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.

Charts