grab a hammer drive you a nail spend your weekend in the county jail see your friends laying in the ground you live the life i lived you would know the way country sounds it sounds like this it sounds like that it sounds like the weight of the world on your back is sounds like heaven when you feel a lil down you live the life i lived you would know the way country sounds you worked all day in the hot hot sun spend your life on the run hear your mamma crying cause she s all alone hear nobody on the other end of the phone it sounds like this it sounds like that it sounds like the weight of the world on your back is sounds like heaven when you feel a lil down  you live the life i lived you would know the way country sounds and i had heartache lord i had pain and i had to struggle with the needle in my vein and i ve been lost just to walk in down town you live the life i lived you would know the way country sounds it sounds like this it sounds like that it sounds like the weight of the world on your back is sounds like heaven when you feel a lil down you live the life i lived you would know the way country sounds