Life Aint Fair and the World is Mean - Sturgill Simpson

Well that label man said son now can you sing a little bit more clear

Your voice might be too genuine and your song’s a little too sincere

Can you sing a little more about outlaws and the way things used to be

He told me you just worry about writing them songs leaving everything else to me

Daddy was a Highwayman but he never wrote any old country songs

Papaw never stayed out raising hell til the break of dawn

But he raised a proud coal miners daughter and I’m proud to be her son

She told me boy I don’t care if you hit it big, cause you’re already #1

That’s the way it goes in this day & age

You ain’t gotta read between the lines you just gotta turn the page

Well the most outlaw thing that I’ve ever done was give a good woman a ring

But that’s the way it goes, life ain’t fair and the world is mean

Well I still got the wife and the dog but I swapped the truck out for a van

Gonna hit the road find the end of that long white line in The Promised Land

Won’t hear my song on the radio cause that new sounds all the rage

But you can always find me in a smokey bar with bad sound and a dim lit stage