I Ain't Living Long Like This

You look for trouble and you found it, son

Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun

You try to run, but I don't think you can

You make one move and you're a dead man, friend

Ain't livin' long like this

Can't live at all like this

Can I, baby?

He put the handcuffs on behind your back

Left you freezin' on the steel rail rack

They got 'em all in the jailhouse, baby

Ain't livin' long like this

Grew up in Houston off the Wayside Drive

Son of a carhop in some all night dive

Dad drove a stock car to an early death

All you remember is a drunk man's breath

Ain't livin' long like this

Oh, I can't live at all like this

Can I, baby?

You know the story how the wheel go around

Don't let 'em take you to the man downtown

They got 'em all in the jailhouse, baby

Ain't livin' long like this

Can't live at all like this

Can I, baby?

Your little ole angel, she's your roadhouse queen

Make Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee

You wanna love her, but you don't know how

You're at the bottom of the jailhouse now

Ain't livin' long like this

Can't live at all like this

Can I, baby?

Know a story 'bout the jailhouse rock

Go on and do it, but just don't get caught

Can't sleep at all in the jailhouse, baby, yeah

Ain't livin' long like this

Can't live at all like this

Can I, baby?

Can't live at all like this

(Can I, baby?)