The Life

It was early one morning
 Playa del Carmen
 That's when I first met Jose
 He had a twelve foot Schooner
 A three foot cooler
 Full of the catch of the day
 And he was wrinkled from grinning
 From all of the sun he had been in
 He was barefoot, cerveza in hand
 He said "Gracias senor" when I paid him too much for
 All of the snapper he had
 Now I told him my friend it ain't nothing
 In the best broken Spanish I knew
 I said I make a good living
 Back home where I'm from
 He smiled and said "amigo me too"
 He said I fish and I play my guitar
 I laugh at the bar with my friends
 I go home to my wife
 I pray every night
 I can do it all over again
 Somewhere over Texas
 I thought of my Lexus
 And all the stuff I work so hard for
 And all the things that I've gathered
 From climbing that ladder
 Didn't make much sense anymore
 They say my nest egg ain't ready to hatch yet
 They keep holding my feet to the fire
 They call it paying the price
 So that one day in life
 I'll have what I need to retire
 And just fish and play my guitar
 And laugh at the bar with my friends
 And go home to my wife
 And pray every night
 I can do it all over again
 And to think that I thought for a while there that I had it made
 When the truth is I'm really just dying
 To live like Jose
 And just fish
 Play my guitar
 Laugh at the bar with my friends
 Go home to my wife
 Pray every night
 I can do it all over again
 Wouldn't that be the life
 Wouldn't that be the life