I Ain't Livin' 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
I got 'em all in the jailhouse
I ain’t they baby I ain’t living long like this
Grew up in Houston off of wayside drive
Son of a carhop in some old night dive
Dad drove a stock car to an early death
All I remember was a drunk man’s breath
I ain’t living long like this
I can’t live at all like this can I, baby
We know the story how the wheel goes round
Don’t let 'em take you to the man downtown
Can’t sleep at all in the jailhouse, baby
I ain’t living long like this
I can’t live at all like this can I, baby
I live for angel she’s a roadhouse queen
Make Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee
I want to love her but you don’t know how
I’m at the bottom of the jailhouse now
I ain’t living long like this
I can’t live at all like this can I, baby
You know the story bout the jailhouse rock
Go on and do it but just don’t get caught
Got 'em all in the jailhouse, baby
I ain’t living long like this
I can’t live at all like this can I, baby