Steve Earle, Willie Nelson - So You Wannabe an Outlaw lyrics
[Steve Earle, Willie Nelson - So You Wannabe an Outlaw lyrics]
So you wanna be an outlaw?
Better take it from me
Living on the highway ain't everything
It's supposed to be
Everybody reckons that they wanna be free
Ain't nobody wants to be alone
Stumblin' in the alley at a quarter to three
Hollering after Sally, "Honey
What you trying to do to me?"
Told me, "Go to hell
I'm going back to Tennessee"
I said, "Angel, you can never go home"
Never go home never go home
If you wanna be an outlaw
You can never go home
So you wanna be outlaw? Better listen up, kid
Steal a million dollars and you
Have to keep it hid
Ain't no place to spend it in
The desert if you did
And you can't take it with you when you go
Always something laying for you
Up around the bend
Everything that goes around comes
Back around again you can't trust anybody
Not a lover or a friend
Your momma, maybe, then you never know
Never do know (Never do know)
Never do know (Well you never do know)
If you wanna be an outlaw
Then you never do know
So you wanna be an outlaw? Son
You better think twice
You better not pout and you better not cry
'Cause there won't nobody give a damn
About you when you die
But the devil when he comes for his due
When you're standing at the crossroads
Don't you try to flag a ride
Don't you fall down on your knees
Don't you do what's already been tried
Hate to tell you but the only the left side
Is to sing the devil out of the blues
Singing the blues keep on singing the blues
Sing the "So you say you
Wanna be an outlaw blues"
Hey Hey
Better take it from me
Living on the highway ain't everything
It's supposed to be
Everybody reckons that they wanna be free
Ain't nobody wants to be alone
Stumblin' in the alley at a quarter to three
Hollering after Sally, "Honey
What you trying to do to me?"
Told me, "Go to hell
I'm going back to Tennessee"
I said, "Angel, you can never go home"
Never go home never go home
If you wanna be an outlaw
You can never go home
So you wanna be outlaw? Better listen up, kid
Steal a million dollars and you
Have to keep it hid
Ain't no place to spend it in
The desert if you did
And you can't take it with you when you go
Always something laying for you
Up around the bend
Everything that goes around comes
Back around again you can't trust anybody
Not a lover or a friend
Your momma, maybe, then you never know
Never do know (Never do know)
Never do know (Well you never do know)
If you wanna be an outlaw
Then you never do know
So you wanna be an outlaw? Son
You better think twice
You better not pout and you better not cry
'Cause there won't nobody give a damn
About you when you die
But the devil when he comes for his due
When you're standing at the crossroads
Don't you try to flag a ride
Don't you fall down on your knees
Don't you do what's already been tried
Hate to tell you but the only the left side
Is to sing the devil out of the blues
Singing the blues keep on singing the blues
Sing the "So you say you
Wanna be an outlaw blues"
Hey Hey