Life Ain't Fair and the World Is Mean

Well, that label man said, "Son, now can you sing a little bit more clear?"

Said, "Your voice might be too genuine, song's a little too sincere

Can you sing a little more about outlaws and the way things used to be?"

Told me, "You just worry about writing them songs, leave everything else to me"

Daddy was a highwayman, but he never wrote any old country songs

Papaw never stayed out raising hell till the break of dawn

But he raised a proud coal miner's daughter, and I'm proud to be her son

She told me, "Boy, I don't care if you hit it big because you're already number one"

That's the way it goes in this day and age

Said you ain't gotta read between the lines, man, you just gotta turn the page

Well, the most outlaw thing that I've ever done was give a good woman a ring

That's the way it goes, life ain't fair and the world is mean

Well, I still got the wife and the dog, but I swapped my truck out for a van

I'm gonna hit the road, find the end of that long white line in the promised land

You won't hear my song on the radio, new sound's all the rage

But you can always find me in a smokey bar, bad sound and a dim lit stage

That's the way it goes in this day and age

Said you ain't gotta read between the lines, man, you just gotta turn the page

Well, the most outlaw thing that I've ever done was give a good woman a ring

That's the way it goes, life ain't fair and the world is mean

That's the way it goes, life ain't fair and the world is mean