I Don't Care Anymore

I used to pull my britches on with just one thing in mind

Make the girls believe that I'm the last one of my kind

Silver tow tips on my boots and a mullet head of hair

Designed to walk into the room and make somebody stare

But I don't care anymore

If I don't stand out in a crowd

I was better off before

I tried to make my mother proud

I came to town a dreaming I could make my mark in spades

Forty odd years later all my best cards have been played

Well it's a hard knock situation when the accolades bestowed

On your every last creation cries out middle of the road

But I don't care anymore

About the fortune or the fame

I was better off before

I tried to make myself a name

All that money that I blew through like some boot black off the farm

Could not have vanished quicker if I'da shot it in my arm

Some so and so says don't you know the limit is the sky?

The next thing I remember, I'm unlearning how to fly

But I don't care anymore

All those party dolls and favors that I savored from day one

Add up to next to nothing after all is said and done

A real friend tried to tell me, man, with all respect for you

The time to put away these things is long since overdue

If indeed I do get lonesome in my mansion on the hill

There's this neighbor's wife I covet for her beauty and her skill

The way she puts herself together, sleek in vagabond couture

Makes each mailbox conversation one more heartache to endure

But I don't care anymore

Who does what and why

I was better off before

When I was just another guy

I've been lied on, spied on, cried on, tried on

Taken for a ride, you bet

Fracked, cracked, smacked, jack

What you see is what you get

I've been spit at, hit at, quit at, shit at

Shouldn't hurt a bit at, what I'm trying to get at

Fool me once, shame on me

Fool me twice and put the blame on

I don't care anymore

No, I don't care anymore