You Can't Write A Country Song

Song Description

Song about a writer who decides to write country music but discovers that in order to be able to really write about the subject you must first live it.

Song Length 4:59 Genre Country - Traditional, Country - Rock
Tempo Medium (111 - 130) Lead Vocal Male Vocal
Mood Moving, Heartbreaking Subject General, General
Language English Era 2000 and later

Lyrics

You Can't Write A Country Song
Peter Spencer Church 2006

When I was young, I tried so hard to write the perfect country song,
So with hope in my heart, I went to work with pen in my hand,
And I learned the right things to say, worked hard almost every day,
But it wasn't very long,
That I got some advice from a very wise old music man, and he said,


Son, you can't write a country song,
It must be born through life's blood, and sweat, and tears,
Son, you can't write a country song,
It must be chiseled out by living, over the years,


So I set my mind to do my best at this thing that they called life,
Oh I was young and wild and free,
But I finally settled down and took a wife,
And it wasn't very long before we had a baby child or two,
Oh we didn't have much, but we made do,

I worked long and hard for endless hours deep into the night,
Worked two jobs and overtime until the morning light,
Got us a house in the country even had a telephone,
Had a job and money but no time to have a home,


One year I lost my only son, and I almost lost my wife,
I almost took a gun to take my own life,
And I started drinking, and I lost my job,
And I know it's a shame, to see a grown man sob,

I've been so down I did not know which way was up,
Been on the streets a beggin' for change to fill my cup,
And it's takin' a lot of time and pain for me to finally understand,
Just what he meant, the words of that man, when he said that,






Lyrics Pete Church Music Pete Church
Producer Pete Church Performance Pete Church

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