The Only One I Know (Cowboy Life)

Another Jake Break wakes me up to a hotel lobby coffee cup

That dirty old white pickup truck

With the trailer hooked up by the Denny's, she's mine

Last night's bugs on the windshield

Fast food trash on the dash meal

A speedin' ticket and a doctor bill

From a gash I got from a short go in Casper

Summer of last year, maybe next year

Oh, and I ride and I fall, one day I might win 'em all

It's just some broken hearts and broken bones

And a hell of a whole lot of bein' alone

But I ride, and I roam, where I hang my hat is home

This cowboy life might kill me, but it's the only one I know

Cell phone was breakin' up

The night she called to say she'd had enough

Of my little white lies and little white lines

And wantin' somebody who could never be with her

I look back on every fork in the road

That I took to chase that buckle of gold

And wonder if what I held for what I hold is worth tradin' away

Hell I don't know, all I know

Is I ride, and I fall, one day I might win 'em all

It's just some broken hearts and broken bones

And a hell of a whole lot of bein' alone

But I ride, and I roam, where I hang my hat is home

This cowboy life might kill me, but it's the only one I know

Yeah, it'll kill me, before it ever lets me go

It'll kill me, but it's the only life I know

And I'd rather die than be caught cryin'

So I'll just smilin' and wear my hat down low

Wear my hat down low

And I ride, and I fall, one day I might win 'em all

It's just some broken hearts and broken bones

And a hell of a whole lot of bein' alone

But I ride, and I roam, where I hang my hat is home

This cowboy life might kill me, but it's the only one I know

Yeah, this cowboy life might kill me, but it's the only one I know