my daddy made a pretty damn good livin playin music on the beauty way he s gonna die with some money in his pocket wish i could do the same today little darlin wish i could do the same today wide eyed kid and a little transistor tuned into wolfman jack i picked up a guitar heard the sirens whisper and i never looked back little darlin and i never looked back i worked the clubs along the sangre de christos polished a diamond in the rough by the time i hit la i was hotter than a pistol but you re never hot enough little darlin you re never really hot enough i felt the lights on the big big stages a fire burnin in my soul i had those nights where my guitar was ragin but it s not something you control little darlin it s not something you control redtail divin for a rat on sunset coyotes pickin through the trash i wish i was lyin like a cat in the sun instead of workin like a dog for the cash little darlin i m only workin for the cash sometimes i wish i could unplug this cord and my soul or my money i could save but every time i say im gonna quit the beauty way i feel my bones just turnin in their grave little darlin bones turnin in their grave