We left home when was barely past eleventeen,
Been back and forth, all around through hell and rain.
I've loved you half your life and I'll keep on lovin' you
But I can't change and live the way you want me to.
We spent alot of time out on the highway
Comin' from some town we played along the way.
Thirty years of knowin' me the way you do,
You know I can't change and live the way you want me to.
- That red bandana tied around her auburn hair,
She looks like she outta be somebody's wife somewhere.
She ain't never gonna be no Bobby McGee but she's tryin' to.
I can't change and live the way she wants me to. -
Everytime she leaves the stage I know she's had her fill.
I wonder why she grew up and why I never will.
I'm fourty-one today, still goin' on twenty-two
But I can't change and live the way she wants me to.
- That red bandana tied around her auburn hair,
She looks like she outta be somebody's wife somewhere.
She ain't never gonna be no Bobby McGee but she's tryin' to.
I can't change and live the way she wants me to
We can't change and live the way she wants us to.