This Life - Intellectual

[Verse 1]

Broken down outside Bakersfield, man, it started to snow

Sleepin' sittin' up in the front seat, cold wind, it blows

Well now, people if you feel for your mortal souls

Get a job workin' at the grocery store

This life, it ain't right for everybody

Everbody'd do it now, if it was easy

This life, it ain't right for everybody

But it sure's been good to me

Drivin' thirty-five miles an hour 'cross that Texas heat

Engine burnin' like the fires of Hell just to melt the shoes of my feet

Three mechanics in a hundred miles and nothin's wrong

Didn't get nothing' outta that trip but another song

Well, this life, it ain't right for everybody

Everbody'd do it now, if it was easy

This life, it ain't right for everybody

But it sure's been good to me

I been up in the apple trees

I been down in the ditches on my bended knees

"May I help you, sir? What do ya need?"

Been 'round a corner or two

Sold everything but my clothes and shoes

Did a thousand jobs that I never wanted to do

I ain't settlin' down here, I'm just passin' through

This life, it ain't right for everybody

Everbody'd do it now, if it was easy

This life, it ain't right for everybody

But it sure's been good to me

Sure been good to

Sure been good to me