Music: Sturgill Simpson
Lyrics: Sturgill Simpson
Producer: Dave Cobb
Well that label man said son now
Can you sing a little bit more clear
Said your voice might be too genuine
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
Because you're already number one
And that's the way it goes in this day and age
Well 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
And 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 promise land
Still 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
And that's the way it goes in this day and age
Well 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
And that's the way it goes
Life ain't fair and the world is mean
That's the way it goes
Life ain't fair and the world is mean
Vocals: Sturgill Simpson