Story Behind The Song

I was sitting on the edge of my bed looking at my Washburn acoustic guitar propped up in the corner of my room. A flood of feelings rushed over me about "My Life", and so this song was born. I really am a crap guitar player, I really used to always be lit, I truly adore my wife and family, and I very much miss the ones who are dead and gone. This song is genuine if nothing else.

Song Description

Where you've been, where you are now, and where you WERE going are often wildly different scenarios. As they say, life has it's ups and downs. I think it's important to be grateful for the ups, recognize the difference, and understand that you don't deserve the ups. You are granted them, but by no doing of your own. This is my perspective, and the lens through which this song was written.

Lyrics

In the corner stands my old guitar
I can't play it too well but I try real hard
A little bit of practice goes little bitty far
My days are filled with work and family

There's my wife oh what a fine mess
When I'm without her I couldn't laugh less
Forever givin' me all of her best
Love so pure and simple needs no legalese

One time I lived in a one-hole shack
And if I never had to I'd never go back
But if I did I still wouldn't crack
I see now what the Lord had planned for me

I wouldn't trade my life for nothin'
I'll even take my strife's and strugglin's
Got blessings by the bushels and the dozens
I even want to keep my cousins
No I wouldn't trade my life for nothin'
The children, the house, the kissin's and the huggin's
We're way down South just a livin' and a lovin'
It's all a man could ever want or need

There was a time when I was always lit
When the lights went out that's when I had to quit
If it's prison you want then it's chains you will get
Life ain't easy but it's better when your free

Woke up one morning with the middle age shakes
Thought I dreamed real thing but it turned out fake
Really had no reason to be cold or afraid
What haunts me is the part I can't retrieve

Some of the family well they're gone for good
If I could bring 'em back well you know that I would
But God's gonna do what only God should
And that's always gonna be alright by me

I wouldn't trade my life for nothin'
I'll even take my strife's and strugglin's
Got blessings by the bushels and the dozens
I even want to keep my cousins
No I wouldn't trade my life for nothin'
The children, the house, the kissin's and the huggin's
We're way down South just a livin' and a lovin'
It's all a man could ever want or need

Gonna go to that corner grab my old guitar
I might not write it well but I'll write it from the heart
Might not be a hit might not go very far
At least I'll get to sing this melody

I wouldn't trade my life for nothin'
I'll even take my strife's and strugglin's
Got blessings by the bushels and the dozens
I even want most of my cousins
No I wouldn't trade my life for nothin'
The children, the house, the kissin's and the huggin's
We're way down South just a livin' and a lovin'
It's all a man could ever want or need...

Yeah, we're way down South just a livin' and a lovin'
It's all a man could ever want or need

Songwriters: Jason Cole