my mama told me your life is such a wreck you re dumber than dogshit is what my daddy said i was just thirteen when they showed me the door i keep their picture but don t look at it no more my first wife told me you need to get a life my third wife told me to get another wife i brought a bottle and the van s parked by that tree so come on out with me if you want to be number four sometimes i feel like shit sometimes that ain t half of it sometimes i m so high i m scared to go to sleep sometimes i m lower than the company i keep ain t held down a job since 1984 i get by holding up convenience stores i get by on liquor guns and luck but i m scared to death which one might run out first sometimes i feel like shit sometimes that ain t half of it sometimes i m so high i m scared to go to sleep sometimes i m lower than the company i keep i seen my past in everything that i despise i ve seen my future and i m scared to close my eyes is that my ghost that i see in my fears or just my reflection in my mama s tears sometimes i feel like shit sometimes that ain t half of it sometimes i m so high i m scared to go to sleep sometimes i m lower than the company i keep sometimes i m lower than the company i keep i pray the lord my soul to keep