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Cowboy Going Nowhere

I love big ranches, cows and am a boy
Guess that makes me a cowboy
I love women, whisky and wide open spaces
Hanging inside smoky bars and betting on horse races

All this i do to escape what i cant bare
I am a cowboy going nowhere

I love leather boots and checked shirts
I am always in tight jeans and stetson hats
As in consume large steaks and ribs
As i compare women's **** and hips

I cheat on my wife every chance that comes
Swinging doors constantly between motels and night clubs
Staying out all night coming home drunk
All my money gone and stinking like a skunk

Whether she leaves me or stays i don't care
Am a cowboy going nowhere

Sometimes i work, back breaking work
Sometimes there is no work so i hang in my shack
All day whisky, cigarettes and the sound of old Westerns
Escaping reality watching John Wayne re-runs

Just like the fake movie gun flares
I am a cowboy going nowhere

In my dreams am the cowboy that saves the day
With a bag full of money to the sunset I ride away
A better life waiting for me somewhere out west
Where there is no trouble or a warrant for my arrest

Dreams are valid, but mine are neither here nor there
I am a cowboy going nowhere

I cant figure out where everything went wrong
My life is like a sad country song
I am a man from another time living a lie
But I will still do it my way till the day i die

Am living between borrowed time and a prayer
Am a cowboy going nowhere

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019




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