The Righteous Path - Drive-By Truckers

I got a brand new car that drinks a bunch of gas

Got a house in a neighborhood that’s fading fast

Got a dog and a cat that don’t fight too much

Got a few hundred channels to keep me in touch

Got a beautiful wife and three tow-headed kids

A couple big secrets I’d kill to keep hid

I don’t know God, but I fear His wrath

I’m trying to stay focused on the righteous path

I got a couple of opinions that I hold dear

Got a whole lot of debt and a whole lot of fear

Got an itch that needs scratchin' but it feels all right

Got the need to blow it out on a Saturday night

Got a grill in the backyard and a case of beers

Got a boat that ain’t seen the water in years

More bills than money, I can do the math

I’m trying to keep focused on the righteous path

I’m trying to keep focused as I drive down the road

On the ditches and the curves and the heavy load

Ain’t bitching 'bout things that ain’t in my grasp

Just trying to hold steady on the righteous path

There’s a friend of mine I’ve known all my life

He can’t get it right, no matter how hard he tries

Got kids he don’t see and several ex-wives

A list of bad decisions 'bout eight miles wide

Trouble with the law and the IRS

And where he’ll get the money is anybody’s guess

He’s a long way off, but if you was to ask

He’d say, «I'm trying to stay on the righteous pathâ€

Tryin' to keep focused as we drive down the road

Like back in high school before the world turned cold

Now the brakes are thin and the curves are fast

We’re trying to hold steady on the righteous path

We’re hanging out and we’re hanging on

We’re trying the best we can to keep on keeping on

We got messed up minds for these messed up times

And there’s a thin, thin line separating his from mine

We’re trying to hold steady on the righteous path

80 miles an hour with a worn out map

No time for self pity, all that old crap

Just trying to stay focused on the righteous path