If It Was Easy

I spent half my life down a dead end road
 This honky tonk living, is all I know
 I'm a roughneck who's wrote a few songs
 I gave it all I got to have what's on my back
 It's a hard-earned dollar when you make your own path
 Ask my babies
 I never had my own
 'Cause if it was easy, I guess we'd all do it if it was guaranteed
 If there was nothing to lose but the struggle
 Oh, the struggle's what makes you strong
 'Cause it's not like me, to lay down and die, no
 Not after all the things that I've saw
 Yeah, it keeps me hanging on
 That's what it takes to follow a song
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 I've been in some places I never should've gone
 Did a little bit of right, and a whole lot of wrong
 I was hell-bound, Lord knows I didn't stand a chance
 But he sent me an angel who was there all along
 She's still waiting there right back at home
 And these other girls, Lord knows I never give 'em a second glance
 'Cause if it was easy, I guess we'd all do it if it was guaranteed
 If there was nothing to lose but the struggle
 Oh, the struggle's what makes you strong
 'Cause it's not like me, to lay down and die, no
 Not after all the things that I've saw
 Yeah, it keeps me hanging on
 That's what it takes to follow a song
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 'Cause if it was easy, I guess we'd all do it if it was guaranteed
 If there was nothing to lose but the struggle
 Oh, the struggle's what makes you strong
 'Cause it's not like me, to lay down and die, no
 Not after all the things that I've saw
 Yeah, it keeps me hanging on
 That's what it takes to follow a song