Learning the Hard Way

"Learning The Hard Way"
Single by Gin Blossoms
from the album Major Lodge Victory
B-side	"Learning The Hard Way (Radio Edit)"
Released	2006
Format	CD
Genre	Jangle pop, power pop
Length	4:09
Label	Hybrid
Writer(s)	Jesse Valenzuela
Gin Blossoms singles chronology
"Not Only Numb" (1996) "Learning The Hard Way" (2006) "Long Time Gone" (2006)

"Learning the Hard Way" is a song by American power pop band Gin Blossoms, and was the lead-off single from their fourth album Major Lodge Victory. It was promoted late summer and fall of 2006, and received heavy AAA airplay. It charted at #8 on the FMQB AAA Chart.

Gin Blossoms also performed Learning The Hard Way live on XM Radio, for which there is a video on YouTube.

Jesse Valenzuela told Songfacts that he "started ruminating" on a 5 or 6 hour drive between Phoenix and Los Angeles and "just kind of wrote down the song when I got home." ^[1]

References

1. "Learning The Hard Way". Songfacts.com. Retrieved 2009-07-03.

External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics