"Life Ain't Fair and the World is Mean"
Sturgill Simpson
High Top Mountain (2013)
Intro:
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Verse 1:
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Well that label man said son now can you sing a little bit more clear
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Your voice might be too genuine and your song's a little too sincere
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Can you sing a little more about outlaws and the way things used to be
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He told me you just worry about writing them songs leaving everything else to me
Verse 2:
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Daddy was a Highwayman but he never wrote any old country songs
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Papaw never stayed out raising hell til the break of dawn
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But he raised a proud coal miners daughter and I'm proud to be her son
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She told me boy I don't care if you hit it big, cause you’re already #1
Chorus:
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That's the way it goes in this day & age
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You ain't gotta read between the lines you just gotta turn the page
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Well the most outlaw thing that I've ever done was give a good woman a ring
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But that's the way it goes, life ain't fair and the world is mean
Solo:
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Verse 3:
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Well I still got the wife and the dog but I swapped the truck out for a van
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Gonna hit the road find the end of that long white line in the promise land
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Won’t hear my song on the radio cause that new sounds all the rage
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But you can always find me in a smokey bar with bad sound and a dim lit stage
Chorus:
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That's the way it goes in this day & age
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You ain't gotta read between the lines you just gotta turn the page
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Well the most outlaw thing that I've ever done was give a good woman a ring
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But that's the way it goes, life ain't fair and the world is mean
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But that's the way it goes, life ain't fair and the world is mean
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