I Ain't Living Long Like This

Rodney Crowell I look for trouble and I found it son Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun I tried to run but I don't think I can He said one move and you're a dead man friend You ain't living long like this I can't live at all like this, can I baby? He slipped the handcuffs on behind my back He left me hanging against a cold steel rack You ain't living long like this Grew up in Houston off the wayside drives Son of a carhop and some all night dives Daddy drove a stock car to an early death He said remember son in his dying breath You ain't living long like this You can't live at all like this, oh no baby You know the story 'bout the wheel go 'round Don't let them take you there all down town Ain't living long like this I live for Angel she's a roadhouse queen Make Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee I want to love her but I don't know how I'm at the bottle and I'm stumbling here I'm in the jailhouse now I ain't living long like this, oh no baby You know the story about the jailhouse rock Well go on and do it, don't get caught You ain't living long like this, oh no baby Go on and do it but don't get caught Cause there all in the jailhouse now