Rodney Crowell - I Ain't Living Long Like This lyrics

I looked for trouble and I found it, son Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun You'd try to run but you don't think you can You make one move and you're 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 he left me freezing on a steel rail rack Can't sleep at all in the jailhouse, baby I ain't living long like this Grew up in Houston off of Wayside Drive Son of a car hop in some all night dive Dad drove a stock car to an early d**h 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 They got 'em all in the jailhouse, ain't they baby I ain't living long like this I live with Angel, she's a roadhouse queen Makes Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee You want to love her but you don't know how You're 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 They got 'em all in the jailhouse, ain't they baby I ain't living long like this