V1 Entered this world in a double-wide in the heart of the wrong side of town My ol’ man I couldn’t stand and mama was the biggest whore around So it ain’t any mystery why I turned out the way I am Guess you play the hand you’ve been dealt then cash out when you can V2 I cut my teeth in honky tonk dives boozin’ my way through a wasted life Got a little older, and that chip on my shoulder led to my share of bar-room fights Nahhh tempers don’t have an off-switch when you’re feelin’ ten feet tall Guess I never learned to walk away when that bartender yelled, last call CH This hard livin’ ain’t done givin’ hell to me And I know I need to change my ways This hard livin’ ain’t easily dyin But I swear I keep tryin’ To live a little softer everyday…just a little softer everyday V3 My ex-lady took our baby and left me many years ago Said it’s me or the bottle and I got hostile, I don’t blame her though I couldn’t part ways with my party days and for that I paid a price My son calls another man daddy, that same man calls my ex, his wife V4 Spent last summer in the slammer, you could say I’m a lifetime member Checked-in early May, this time I behaved and got out in September Stayin’ on parole ain’t no way to go, lord knows, I can’t go on like this My life’s just doin’ time, gotta draw the line, somethin’s gotta give CH This hard livin’ ain’t done givin’ hell to me And I know I need to change my ways This hard livin’ ain’t easily dyin But I swear I keep tryin’ To live a little softer everyday…just a little softer everyday Outro The more this dead-end road’s sellin’, the more that I keep buyin’ Like a highway of pain with no exit lane, I just keep on drivin’ Gotta find a way to break these chains and get off this crazy train Need to live a little softer…before I go insane Yeah…maybe I can live a little softer…today…
