I Ain't Living Long Like This

I looked for trouble and I found it son
 Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun
 I'd try to run, but I don't think I can
 You make one move and you're a dead man friend
 I ain't living long like this
 I can't live at all like this, can I baby?
 He slipped the handcuffs on behind my back
 Then left me freezing on a steel rail truck
 They got 'em all in the jailhouse
 I ain't living long like this
 Grew up in Houston off of wayside drive
 Son of a car-hop in some all-night dive
 Dad drove a stock car to an early death
 All I remember was a drunk man's breath
 Ain't living long like this
 I can't live at all like this, can I baby?
 You know the story how the wheel goes round
 Don't let 'em take you to the man downtown
 They got 'em all in the jailhouse
 I ain't living long like this
 I can't live it all like this, can I baby?
 I live for Angel, she's a roadhouse queen
 Make Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee
 I wanna love her, but I don't know how
 Down to the bottom of the jailhouse now
 Ain't living long like this
 I can't live at all like this, can I baby?
 You know the story about the jailhouse rock
 Go on and do it, but just don't get caught
 They got 'em all in the jailhouse
 I ain't living long like this
 I can't live at all like this, can I baby?