Waylon Jennings Follow

I sat at a bar having a beer
Trying to hold down the stool
When a stranger walked in, stood there beside me
And plopped down there like a fool

He started drinking, then he started talking
About things that were wrong in his life
The more that I heard, the more I believed
The thing that was wrong was his wife

You talk about beauty when we first met
She was all a man could desire
Talk about love one night with her
Would set your very soul on fire

But love's little flame is out of control
About three feet high from behind
Ever since we've been married, well I've come to believe
That love's for the dumb and the blind

'Cause you talk about ugly
When she gets mad, she goes from Jekyll to Hyde
She grits her teeth and her eyes roll back
And pivot from side to side

She completely rewrites the whole English language

Now I can't outthink her but I can sure outdrink her
And that's what I'm doing here now

I've spent seven years with the wrong woman
Seven and going on eight
She spent seven years naggin' and eatin'
I'm overwrought and she's overweight

If I try leavin' she has me arrested
And takes her own sweet time gettin' me out
If she ain't number one, she's in the top two
Of things that I could live without

Men commit murder and all kinds of mayhem
In a few years they're back on the streets
Highway robbery and white collar crime
And they laugh at the system they beat

Sometimes I'm tempted, sometimes I'm ashamed
Of the things that the law will allow
I could have killed her when I first met her
And I'd have been out of jail by now
I could have killed her when we first met
And I've have been out of jail by now

I sat at a bar having a beer
Trying to hold down the stool
When a stranger walked in, stood there beside me