Lyrics to
I Ain’t Living Long Like This

This version of I Ain’T Living Long Like This was released by Emmylou Harris in 1978.

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You looked for trouble and you found it son
Straight down the barrel of a lawman’s gun
You’d try to run but you don’t think you can
You make one move and you’re dead man, friend
I ain’t living long like this
I can’t live at all like this, can I baby
He slipped the handcuffs on behind my back
Then he left me freezing on a steel rail track
They got ’em all in the jailhouse, ain’t they bay
I ain’t living long like this
grew up in Houston off of Wayside drive
Son of a charhop in some all night dive
Dad drove a stock car to an early death
All I remember was a drunk man’s death
I ain’t living long like this
I can’t live at all like this can I baby

We know the story how the wheel goes round
Don’t let ’em take you to the man downtown
Can’t sleep at all in the jailhouse, baby
I ain’t living long like this
You live for angel, she’s a roadhouse queen
Make Texas ruby look like Sandra Dee
You want to love her but you don’t know how
You’re at the bottom of the jailhouse now
I ain’t living long like this
I can’t live at all like this, can I baby

You know the story ’bout the jailhouse rock
Go on and do it, but just don’t get caught
They got ’em all in the jailhouse, ain’t they baby
I ain’t living long like this

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The lyrics for I Ain’T Living Long Like This are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1978 song by Emmylou Harris. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to I Ain’T Living Long Like This have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for I Ain’T Living Long Like This - Emmylou Harris and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to I Ain’T Living Long Like This by Emmylou Harris in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to I Ain’T Living Long Like This" means the words set to the music of I Ain’T Living Long Like This, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Emmylou Harris. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to I Ain’T Living Long Like This and the lyrics to I Ain’T Living Long Like This are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Emmylou Harris who came here looking just for the lyrics to I Ain’T Living Long Like This, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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