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