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Ain't Life Strange

from Doin' Fine by T. Scott Smith

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Ain't Life Strange (1979)

This is a true story and happened just as I wrote it.

lyrics

Ain't Life Strange
© 1979 Music and Lyrics T. Scott Smith
MadDog Music ~ ASCAP

Well, my lip hurts and my feet are flat and my education’s small
There’s some folks down on the corner who don’t care for me at all.
My momma said that she once read where a man had broke his back
When he stopped to tie his tennis shoe in front of a Cadillac.

CHORUS:
Ain't life strange? Here we go a spinnin’ with the seasons.
It’s all small change when you finally separate the rhymes and reasons.
And if you don’t know by now if I’m the one you want
Then I guess I’ll have to be the one you don’t.

My dog died by the roadside with a wild hair in her head
Thinkin’ to pitch a car in the ditch but she ended up there instead.
Well there aint much truth when your lyin’ around on a cold December day
Just lookin’ out your window tryin’ to see the forest but the trees get in your way.

(CHORUS)

I don’t recall last night at all it must have been something I drunk.
The left front tire on my car is flat and I can’t find the key to the trunk.
Some days are good; some days are bad and some days you just break even.
There’s some mornin’s when I wake up surprised that I’m still breathin’.

LAST CHORUS:
Ain't life strange? Here we go a spinnin’ with the seasons.
It’s all small change when you finally separate the rhymes and reasons.
And if you don’t know by now if I’m the one you want
Then I guess I’ll have to be the one,
you know I’ll be the only one,
I guess I’ll have to be the one you don’t.

credits

from Doin' Fine, released March 1, 2013
COLBY LANEY acoustic guitar
CAMERON OWENS mandolin
PETE WASHBURN banjo and vocal
NICKY SANDERS fiddle
AARON RAMSEY bass

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