You know somethin', luke?

If you ride like lightin', you're gonna crash like thunder.

Welcome to the dog days, darlin'

Welcome to hard times, too

Are the tumultuous times of my troubled youth

Just a-troublin' you?

I was born in the dog days, darlin'

I ain't ever eat from no silver spoon

All this bureaucratic, gotta-have-it, surface-level shit's

Got me feelin' blue.

On the day I was born

They told me I would never be somethin'

Gotta make it through them dog days, darlin'

If you wanna go far, then you oughta go alone

But I ain't a boy, darlin', I'm all the way grown.

Welcome to hard work, brother

Welcome to me workin' harder

Welcome to me bein' stronger for longer

And always goin' just a little bit farther

Let me tell you 'bout the dog days, darlin'

Let me tell you about writin' a song

Let me tell you about writin' things down your whole life

Just to spend it rightin' your wrongs.

Welcome to dog days, darlin'

Welcome to young manhood

Welcome to everything you ever said and everything you ever did

Been misunderstood.

On the day I was born

They told me I would never be somethin'

Gotta make it through them dog days, darlin'

If you wanna go far, then you oughta go alone

But I ain't a boy, darlin', I'm all the way grown

I ain't a boy, darlin', I'm all the way grown

I ain't a boy, darlin', I'm all the way grown

I ain't a boy, darlin', I'm all the way grown.