Hell of a Life

Helped save an alien when I was just thirteen
 Shot down a helicopter yellin' wolverines
 Recited Robert Frost staring at the sun
 Held my ground at the Devil's Den with an empty gun
 Smoked marijuana with Cheech and Chong
 Survived a plane crash in the Amazon
 Ann-Margret made love to me on A Tiger's Tale
 Spent a lifetime in prison hoping to make bail
 It's a hell of a life, the one that I'm livin'
 I gotta keep moving on, doin' the best that I can
 Do a little less hurtin' and a little more forgivin'
 'Cause son that's the kind of life that makes a man
 Spent two years with my buddy Swayze
 Even taught him how to rope and how to ride
 You might've missed that one we did with Jamie Lee Curtis
 But it had some lovely benefits on the side
 I played a killer on TV called The Reaper
 That a lot of folks have come to love and hate
 Well I guess if I had to pick me out a favorite
 It'd still be the little Greaser from '68
 It's a hell of a life, the one that I'm livin'
 I gotta keep moving on, doin' the best that I can
 Do a little less hurtin' and a little more forgivin'
 'Cause son that's the kind of life that makes a man
 Fought me some dinosaurs in the land that time forgot
 I went back to the future before Michael J. Fox
 Well I made that boy I was a million dollars
 Way before he turned twenty one
 Well I spent every dime at least a dozen times
 But I won't ever be accused of never having fun
 The wife is gone, the kids are grown and I'm on my own
 I'm starting over trying to write and sing
 Looking back if I had to live my life all over again
 I swear I wouldn't change a goddamn thing
 Hell of a life, the one that we're livin'
 I gotta keep moving on, doin' the best that I can
 Do a little less hurtin' and a little more forgivin'
 'Cause son that's the kind of life that makes a man
 I said, son that's the kinda life that'll make a man