It's raining on the west coast snowing in Topeka
The weatherman says there's ice below Tennessee
There's a flood out in California and a drought way down in Texas
And in Maine the fog's so thick that you can't see
But the sun shines bright in Acapulco
There's no snow in Old Monterey
There's no ice down in Nogales
I say oh Lord there's gotta be a better way
I see a loser in my mirror got a devil in my brain
And the woman I've been loving she moved on
She left lonesome in my bedroom and dirty dishes in my sink
Guess she didn't like the words to my country song
But the sun shines bright in Acapulco
There's no snow in Old Monterey
There's no ice down in Nogales
I say oh Lord there's gotta be a better way
I?ll mail a check for my kids to Joanie buy a backpack and a hat
Get a map that shows all the highways heading south
I got no friends to call there ain?t nobody left at all
I?m gonna be up and in not down and out
But the sun shines bright in Acapulco
There's no snow in Old Monterey
There's no ice down in Nogales
I say oh Lord there's gotta be a better way
But the sun shines bright in Acapulco
There's no snow in Old Monterey
There's no ice down in Nogales
I say oh Lord there's gotta be a better way