Ain’t Necessarily So

You can't break your eggs to count your chickens And you can't break your neck to keep your ducks all in a row But don't think every chance you take has to mean a new mistake It ain't necessarily so Now depending on the soil and the season You can plant a seed and you can watch it grow But you can't have a guarantee 'cause everything that aught to be Ain't necessarily so I laugh when I can and I live with the rest I learned that holdin' on means lettin' go I try to be a friend to the person on my left They say you just can't be too careful who you know But that ain't necessarily so I'd like to have more faith in human logic Basin' all the rules on the proof that you can show But I can't take my guesses back that I based on all those facts That ain't necessarily so And every time I follow what I'm feelin' I end up in the same place my heart would have me go If there's one rule of life I trust, it's everything outside your gut Ain't necessarily so I laugh when I can and I live with the rest I learned that holdin' on means lettin' go I try to be a friend to the person on my left They say you just can't be too careful who you know But that ain't necessarily so I laugh when I can and I live with the rest I've learned that holdin' on means lettin' go I try to be a friend to the person on my left They say you just can't be too careful who you know But that ain't necessarily so