The Only One I Know (Cowboy Life) - Cody Johnson

Another Jake brake wakes me up to a hotel lobby coffee cup

That dirty old white pickup truck with the trailer hooked up by the Denny’s,

she’s mine

Last night’s bugs on the windshield, fast food trash on the dash meal

Speedin' ticket and a doctor bill from a gash I got from a short go in Casper

Summer of last year, maybe next year

And I ride, and I fall, one day I might win 'em all

Just some broken hearts and broken bones, and a hell of a whole lot of bein'

alone

But I ride, and I roam, where I hang my hat is home

This cowboy life might kill me, but it’s the only one I know

Cell phone was breakin' up, the night she called to say she’d had enough

Of my little white lies and little white lines and wantin' somebody who could

never be with her

I look back on every fork in the road that I took to chase that buckle of gold

And wonder if what I held for what I hold is worth tradin' away

Hell I don’t know, all I know

And I ride, and I fall, one day I might win 'em all

Just some broken hearts and broken bones, and a hell of a whole lot of bein'

alone

But I ride, and I roam, where I hang my hat is home

This cowboy life might kill me, but it’s the only one I know

Yeah it’ll kill me, before it ever lets me go

It’ll kill me, but it’s the only life I know

And I’d rather die than be caught cryin'

So I’m just smilin', wear my hat down low

But wear my hat down low

And I ride, and I fall, one day I might win 'em all

Just some broken hearts and broken bones, and a hell of a whole lot of bein'

alone

But I ride, and I roam, where I hang my hat is home

This cowboy life might kill me, but it’s the only one I know

Yeah this cowboy life might kill me, but it’s the only one I know