What a sad state of affairs I'm in
'Cause I'm tryin' to compete where I just don't fit in
The country if you'd call it that from off the row
It ain't country, trust me 'cause I'm old enough to know that
That ain't country
That's a natural fact
It's full of tales of good times and happy endings
My life ain't like that
So I'll be listenin' to the old songs
That my granddad used to play
Full of pain and heartache and desperation
And the ones that got away
The songs that speak to me
The way I feel today
So tell me, whatever happened to the country songs
Full of truth and consequences or the things gone wrong?
Someone came and changed it up, made it all a lie
That ain't country
That's a natural fact
It's full of tales of good times and happy endings
My life ain't like that
So I'll be listenin' to the old songs
That my granddad used to play
Full of pain and heartache and desperation
And the ones that got away
The songs that speak to me
The way I feel today
We got Waylon singin' songs 'bout a ramblin' man
And Junior's got a cold one in his hand
And the Parson's gettin' drunk again, imagine that
With Charlie Daniels playin' fiddle underneath that hat
John and Junior goin' back and forth again
And David Allen Coe is singin' 'bout his kin
Haggard sings the songs that'll save your soul
Willie's songs are all about the hearts he's stole, 'cause
That shit's country
That's a natural fact
It's full of tales of hard times and complications
Ain't life like that?
So I'll be listenin' to the old songs
That my granddad used to play
Full of pain and heartache and desperation
And the ones that got away
The songs that speak to me
The way I feel today
The songs that speak to me
The way I feel today