I can string some words together, make 'em pretty and make 'em rhyme

There's some hard miles on my heart chasin' this crazy dream of mine

Left everyone I love, hurt everyone I know

It's a lonely road for poets and old souls.

You take your pain, you write it down

You sing your songs, word slowly gets around

And there's some that think it's easy, I'm here to tell you it just ain't so

It's a lonely road for poets and old souls.

Well, this old guitar's seen me at my whiskey bottom worst

And lookin' back on it's a wonder I didn't wind up in a hearse

You see the part of me that shines, but there's a lot that you don't know

It's a lonely road for poets and old souls.

You take your pain, you write it down

You sing your songs, word slowly gets around

Well, there's some that think it's easy, I'm here to tell you it just ain't so

It's a lonely road for poets and old souls.

You take your pain, you write it down

Been ten years, word's finally gettin' 'round

There's some that think it's easy, I'm here to tell you it just ain't so

It's a lonely road for poets and old souls.

If you come in thinkin' it's easy, I'm here to tell you it just ain't so

It's a lonely road for poets and old souls.