I Ain't Living Long Like This

You looked for trouble and you found it, son
 Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun
 You try to run but I don't think you can
 You make one move and you're a dead man friend
 Ain't living long like this
 Can't live it long like this, can you baby?
 He put the handcuffs on behind your back
 Left you freezin' on a steelrail truck
 They got 'em all in the jailhouse, baby
 Ain't living long like this
 Grew up in Houston off of wayside drive
 Son of a carhop in some old night dive
 Dad drove a stock car to an early death
 All you remember was a drunk man's breath
 Ain't living long like this
 Can't live at all like this, can you baby?
 You know the story how the wheel go round
 Don't let 'em take you to the man downtown
 They got 'em all in the jailhouse, baby
 Ain't living long like this
 Can't living long like this, can you baby?
 You live for angel, she's a roadhouse queen
 Make Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee
 You want to love her but you don't know how
 You're at the bottom of the jailhouse now
 Ain't living long like this
 Can't live at all like this, can you baby?
 You know the story 'bout the jailhouse rock
 Go on and do it but just don't get caught
 'Cause they got all in the jailhouse, baby
 Ain't living long like this
 Can't living long like this, can you baby?
 Ain't living long like this
 Rodney Crowell
 And we go way back to beginning of sorts for me
 But I like to think of as the beginning