What a sad state of affairs I'm in
Cause I'm tryin to compete where I just don't fit in
Cause the country (if you call it that) from off the road
Ain't country just because I'm old enough to know that
That ain't country
That's a natural fact
They're full of tails of good times and happy endings
My life ain't like that
So I'll keep listening to the old songs
That my Grandad used to play
Full of pain and heartache and desperation and the ones that got away
The ones that speak to me, the way I feel today
So tell me, whatever happened to the country songs
Full of truth and consequences all the things gone wrong
Someone came and changed it up, made it all a lie
I'd like to spit a little beachnut right in that dude's eye, cause
That ain't country
That's a natural fact
They're full of tails of good times and happy endings
My life ain't like that
So I'll keep listening to the old songs
That my Grandad used to play
Full of pain and heartache and desperation and the ones that got away
The ones that speak to me, the way I feel today
(Now listen here)
We got Waylon singin songs bout a Ramblin Man
And Junior's got a cold one in his hand
And the Pussum's gettin drunk again imagine that
And Charlie Daniels playin fiddle underneath that hat
And John and June are goin back and forth again
And David Allan Coe is singin bout his kin
And Haggard sings the songs that'll save your soul
And Willie sings the songs about the hearts he stole, cause
That shit's country
That's a natural fact
It's full of tails of hard times and complications
Ain't life like that
So I'll keep listening to the old songs
That my Grandad used to play
Full of pain and heartache and desperation and the ones that got away
The ones that speak to me, the way I feel today
The ones that speak to me
The way I feel today