Work

Intro: Verse Carhart jacket on 5:30 am Feelin' like the ace of spades 15 years old, work till the sun comes Then I'm off to school again Workin' my back as a young man Taught me I'd rather work my mind So we'd cop a little smoke And crack a couple jokes Just tryin' to learn to survive I wanted to work to live No not just live to work I had a pain deep in my bones beneath my t-shirt Was a young man singin' an old man's song Payin' with my last dimes But workin' to live beats livin' to work Anytime Instrumental I had a teacher She told my mother she better find me a trade Because boys like me well we all grow up To be long term guests of the state Now I worked hard because I had to I never found much luck Till' I built my world Round' a Georgia girl Who told me that I was enough I wanted to work to live No not just live to work I had a pain deep in my bones beneath my t-shirt Was a young man singin' an old man's song Payin' with my last dimes But workin' to live beats livin' to work Anytime Instrumental Sometimes at night I wake with a shiver Sweat soakin' clean through my sheets Then I remember I am who I am Not who they said I would be I wasn't born with nothin' Cept' a voice and common sense Maybe that's why I took off runnin' First chance that I had I wanted to work to live No not just live to work I had a pain deep in my bones beneath my t-shirt Was a young man singin' an old man's song Payin' with my last dimes But workin' to live beats livin' to work Anytime Oh workin' to live beats livin' to work Anytime