The Only One I Know (Cowboy Life)

Another Jake brake wakes me up

To a hotel lobby coffee cup

That dirty old white pickup truck with the trailer hooked up by the Denny's, she's mine

Last night's bugs on the windshield

Fast food trash on the dash meal

Speeding ticket and a doctor bill

From a gash I got, from a short go in Casper

Summer of last year, maybe next year

And I ride, and I fall, one day I might win 'em all

Just some broken hearts and broken bones

And a hell of a whole lot of being alone

But I ride, and I roam, where I hang my hat is home

This cowboy life might kill me, but it's the only one I know

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Cell phone was breakin' up,

The night she called to say she'd had enough

Of my little white lies and little white lines

And wanting somebody who could never be with her

I look back on every fork in the road that I took to chase that buckle of gold

And wonder if what I held for what I hold is worth trading away

Hell I don't know, all I know

And I ride, and I fall, one day I might win 'em all

Just some broken hearts and broken bones

And a hell of a whole lot of being alone

But I ride, and I roam, where I hang my hat is home

This cowboy life might kill me, but it's the only one I know

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Yeah it'll kill me, before it ever lets me go

It'll kill me, but it's the only life I know

And I'd rather die than be caught crying

So I'm just smiling, wear my hat down low

But wear my hat down low

And I ride, and I fall, one day I might win 'em all

Just some broken hearts and broken bones

And a hell of a whole lot of being alone

But I ride, and I roam, where I hang my hat is home

This cowboy life might kill me, but it's the only one I know

Yeah this cowboy life might kill me, but it's the only one I know