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, song's a little too sincere

Can you sing a little more about outlaws and the way things used to be

Told me you just worry about writing them songs

Leave everything else to me

Daddy was a highwayman but he never wrote any old country songs

Papaw never stayed out raising hell till 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, this day and age

Said you ain't gotta read between the lines

You just gotta turn the page

Well the most outlaw thing that I've ever done

Was give a good woman a ring

But 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 the truck out for a van

Gonna hit the road

Find the end of that long while line in the promise land

You won't hear my song on the radio cause that new sounds all the rage

But you can always find me in a smokey bar

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

You just gotta turn the page

Well the most outlaw thing that I've ever done

Was give a good woman a ring

But 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