I spent half my life down a dead end road

This honky-tonk living, is all I know

I'm a roughneck whose wrote a few songs.

I gave it all I got to have what's on my back

It's a hard earned dollar when you make your own path

Ask my babies

I never had my own.

'cause if it was easy, I guess we'd all do it if it was guaranteed

If there was nothing to lose but the

Struggle, oh the struggle's what makes you strong

'cause it's not like me, to lay down and die, no

Not after all the things that I've saw

Yeah, it keeps me hanging on

That's what it takes to follow a song.

I've been in some places I never should've gone

Did a little bit of right, and a whole lot of wrong

I was hell-bound lord knows I didn't stand a chance

But he sent me an angel who was there all along

She's still waiting there right back at home

And these other girls, lord knows I never give 'em a second glance.

'cause if it was easy, I guess we'd all do it if it was guaranteed

If there was nothing to lose but the

Struggle, oh the struggle's what makes you strong

'cause it's not like me, to lay down and die, no

Not after all the things that I've saw

Yeah, it keeps me hanging on

That's what it takes to follow a song.

'cause if it was easy, I guess we'd all do it if it was guaranteed

If there was nothing to lose but the

Struggle, oh the struggle's what makes you strong

'cause it's not like me, to lay down and die, no

Not after all the things that I've saw

Yeah, it keeps me hanging on

That's what it takes to follow a song.