Ray Davies - The Hard Way lyrics

Boys like you were born to waste You never listen to a word I say And if you think you're here to mess around You're making a big mistake 'Cos you're gonna find out the hard way You gonna find out the hard way No matter what I do or say You're much too dumb to educate One day life's going to turn around and slap you in the face Then you're gonna find out the hard way You'll take the hard way Gonna take the hard way Well, you'll do it your way and I'll do it my way And we'll see who's the one to survive You'll find that with no foundation Or qualifications There's no way that you can get by No, there's no way you can get by Why don't you take the easy way? Why don't you co-operate? Don't just sit there and vegetate Do you want to end up illiterate? You think that life's a vacation And you've no inclination To dust away the cobwebs of your mind Now it's time for confrontation And I'm tired of being patient So I've got to be cruel to be kind You've got to be cruel to be kind I'm wasting my vocation teaching you to write neat When you're only fit to sweep the streets Your intellect is such That it requires a k**er's touch So I'm going to play it your way We'll take the hard way Going to take the hard way You can take the hard way Gonna take the hard way Gonna take the hard way