I Ain't Livin' Long Like This Songtext
von Rodney Crowell

I looked for trouble and I found it son
Straight down the barrel of a lawman′s gun
I'd try to run, but I don′t think I can
You make one move and you're a dead man friend

I 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
Then left me freezing on a steel rail truck
They got ′em all in the jailhouse
I ain't living long like this

Grew up in Houston off of wayside drive
Son of a car-hop in some all-night dive
Dad drove a stock car to an early death
All I remember was a drunk man′s breath


Ain't living long like this
I can′t live at all like this, can I baby?
You know the story how the wheel goes round
Don't let ′em take you to the man downtown
They got 'em all in the jailhouse
I ain't living long like this
I can′t live it all like this, can I baby?

I live for Angel, she′s a roadhouse queen
Make Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee
I wanna love her, but I don't know how
Down to the bottom of the jailhouse now

Ain′t living long like this
I can't live at all like this, can I baby?
You know the story about the jailhouse rock
Go on and do it, but just don′t get caught
They got 'em all in the jailhouse
I ain′t living long like this
I can't live at all like this, can I baby?