Life Ain't Fair & the World is Mean

Well that label man said son now can you sing a little bit more clear
Your voice might be too genuine and 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 them songs
Leave everything else to me

Daddy was a highway man but he never wrote any old country songs
Papaw never stayed out raising hell until 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
You're already number one

That's the way it goes in this day and age
You aint gotta read between the lines
You just gotta turn the page
The most outlaw thing I've ever done was give a good woman a ring
but that's the way it goes
life aint fair and the world is mean

I still got the wife and the dog but I swapped the truck out for a van
Gonna hit the road, find the end of that long white line in the promise land
You won't hear my song on the radio
The new sound's all the rage
But you can always find me in a smoky bar
with bad sound and a dim lit stage