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 Your song's a little too sincere Can you sing a little more about outlaws and The way things used to be?" He told me, "You just worry about writing 'em songs Leave everything else to me" Daddy, was a highwayman But he never wrote any old country song Papaw never stayed out raising hell 'Til the break of dawn But he raised a proud coal miners daughter And I'm proud to be her son She told me, "Boy, I don't care if you hit it big 'Cause 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 And you just don't turn the page Well, the most outlaw thing that I've ever done 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 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 sounds all the rage You can always find me in a smokey bar With 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 And you just don't turn the page Well, the most outlaw thing that I've ever done 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