Just high enough to live with the pain
Just low enough I could drown
Head just above the water, tilt back another bottle as an old Hank record spins ‘round
Sometimes I think I got all I need, other times too much just ain’t enough
The nights are long and lonely now, the mornings twice as rough
Gave up my life gave up my home I’m just a stranger on the road
Ain’t got no future can’t forget my past no matter how hard I try
The straight and narrow path never quite seemed to last So I just try to stay within the lines
Gave up my life gave up my home I’m just a stranger on the road
The Devil may care but I don’t mind, ain’t nothing’s fair
Ain’t got nothin’ ain’t got no one watching over me
Time may tell but it may not tell it well
You know dead men tell no tales
I don’t think that you understand
That I never meant to be the man that I am
My old man taught me to strum a few chords - just enough to get me by
I never did learn too much more but y’know that he would always try
I’m hard headed to a fault, soft heart and weak willed
But boy I sure know how to pass the time
Somehow the years roll by like the miles on a road
Past the memories pass the wine
Gave up my life gave up my home I’m just a stranger on the road
The Devil may care but I don’t mind, ain’t nothing’s fair
Ain’t got nothin’ ain’t got no one watching over me
Time may tell but it may not tell it well
You know dead men tell no tales
The Devil may care but I don’t mind, ain’t nothing’s fair
Ain’t got nothin’ ain’t got no one watching over me
Time may tell but it may not tell it well
You know dead men tell no tales
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