She looked her best in life when she was seventeen Of all the girls at school she was the prettiest that I'd seen And I guess I'd say she loved me but I always knew she'd go 'Cause she deserves much better than the only life I know The only life I know, only life I know She deserves much better than the only life I know Well you do what you can anywhere you are He was the only mother too young to go to bars She wore a Jack Daniels t-shirt and the black faded to grey And she deserves much better than the only life I know The only life I know, only life I know She deserves much better than the only life I know The only life I know, only life I know She deserves much better than the only life I know Now all our friends warned me she would leave me soon She never really fit in, aw she'd stand out in a room And it's the kind of town where your first love is your last She deserves much better than the only life I know The only life I know, only life I know She deserves much better than the only life I know The only life I know, only life I know She deserves much better than the only life I know She left home with that winning smile and she's never coming back And I just couldn't argue, she'd already packed her bags I hope I never find her in a truck stop on the road She deserves much better than the only life I know The only life I know, only life I know She deserves much better than the only life I know The only life I know, only life I know She deserves much better than the only life I know