You've Got To

Have you ever known famine
have you ever seen rain?
Have you soaked up the blood of your lovers pain?

Have you ever lived darkness
have you ever feared night?
Have you witnessed evil and prayed for the light?

have you tasted some sorrow
has your well run dry?
Have the tears of the broken slipped from your eyes?

Do you know how to love
in trials, through fights?
do you know how to push through the wind and the fire?

You've got to know lonliness
you've got to have cried
you must have seen hardships and turned from denial

you can't understand the depth of true love
unless you have suffered
unless you've grown tough.