bridges to burn

my whole life's been a fight i never learned to win

i never was the troublin' kind but trouble seemed to fit in

in honky tonks

smokey bars and vfw's

jammin' haggard and hank

waylon and jones

ain't something most kids would do

they tell me that i'm still young with a lot a life to go

but this outlaw style grabbed ahold of me when i was just 14 years old

so i stand up here on this stage

spotlight it keeps me blinded

i tell 'em all that i'm okay but inside i know i'm lying

so many lessons in life that you never wanna learn

but my mind is set

i ain't dead yet

i got a lot more bridges to burn

it's got me drinking from the bottle

taught me how to sin

they said keep falling down this path and your life is bound to end

so i sit here and sing my songs

jack flowing through my veins

i'm smokin' from the left hand tryna make my country name

the city streets full a lot of sharks that'll try to do you in

they tell ya what you wanna hear right now but i'm sure it'll change again

so i stand up here on this stage

spotlight it keeps me blinded

i tell 'em all that i'm okay but inside i know i'm lying

so many lessons in life that you never wanna learn

but my mind is set

i ain't dead yet

i got a lot more bridges to burn

yeah

this guitar is the life of me and we've taken some wrong turns

it's just the price i pay for the lessons that i learned

granddaddy's blood in me's what makes me so damn stern

i got a lot more bridges to burn