I Ain't Living Long Like This

I looked for trouble and I found it son Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun I'd try to run, but I don't think I can You make one move and you're a dead man friend I ain't living long like this I can't live at all like this, can I baby? He slipped the handcuffs on behind my back Then left me freezing on a steel rail truck They got 'em all in the jailhouse I ain't living long like this Grew up in Houston off of wayside drive Son of a car-hop in some all-night dive Dad drove a stock car to an early death All I remember was a drunk man's breath Ain't living long like this I can't live at all like this, can I baby? You know the story how the wheel goes round Don't let 'em take you to the man downtown They got 'em all in the jailhouse I ain't living long like this I can't live it all like this, can I baby? I live for Angel, she's a roadhouse queen Make Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee I wanna love her, but I don't know how Down to the bottom of the jailhouse now Ain't living long like this I can't live at all like this, can I baby? You know the story about the jailhouse rock Go on and do it, but just don't get caught They got 'em all in the jailhouse I ain't living long like this I can't live at all like this, can I baby?