Lessons Learned

Album: Lessons Learned (2022)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Lessons Learned" is the title track to Robert De Leo's first solo album. He plays bass in Stone Temple Pilots but is more than proficient in guitar, which takes the lead on this song.

    "That song really started by me trying to get back into my fingerpicking," he told Songfacts. "I had some patterns that I was doing as practice."
  • De Leo describes the lyric as "a self-examination of my actions through life." It's a hard look:

    Lessons learned
    Bridges burned
    I was too blind to see


    "I'm kind of writing that song as a diary to myself, really," he added.
  • Vocals on this song are by Tim Bluhm, who also sings on the Lessons Learned track "She Brings The Rain." Bluhm leads the San Francisco-based band The Mother Hips and also records as a solo artist.

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