well the doc said son you gotta quit this life you lead before you die i said i can t quit it s all i know and i can t afford to die how am i suppose to pay your bill the i m six feet in the ground who in the hell is gonna feed my dog when i m no longer round i said isn t there somethin you can do doc some kinda pill or remedy he said i ain t never heard of no drug that works to keep a man from bein lazy lazy now just watch it doc cause i work really hard see from 10pm to 2am every night i play my guitar yeah and i drink real hard and i smoke real hard and i hardly have time to sleep lately i ve been eatin so hard i can hardly see my feet well i sat down and i pondered a while about what that good doc had said and i thought real quietly to myself you know maybe i d be better off dead now you see a dead man don t have to worry about the police for any warrants he might have out and i d no longer have to hide from the credit card collectors tryin to flush me out yeah bein dead would be great no more smoke filled lungs or bars no more worryin bout that liver disease i m gonna get from drinkin too hard no more playin all night long no more hangovers that last all day no more meetin beautiful women no more rollin round in the hay who wrote that who the am i kiddin i don t wanna die i gotta lot of things left to do got a lotta drinkin and smokin pickin and grinnin and writin songs for you well i wanna live forever at least as long as i can i wanna smoke them cigarettes and feel the burnin in my lungs man i wanna drink lots of whiskey and get drunk and stupid stoned and i wanna make love to my woman feel the passion burn all night long lord don t take me now you gotta give me a little more time i got few loose ends down here to tie up a lotta worries on my mind and i wanna live forever least as long as i can i wanna smoke them marlboro lights and feel the burnin in my lungs man i wanna drink wild turkey and get drunk and stupid stoned i wanna make love to my texas woman feel the passion burn all night long lord don t take me now you got to give me a little more time i gotta few loose ends down here to tie up a lotta worries on my mind oh yeah i gotta few loose ends down here to tie up and lord you know i can t afford to die