From the recording Reason to Live
Lyrics
I know you’ve been waitin’ on me
To tell you all the things that I should say
About lovin’ an’ livin’ and dreamin’
But I didn’t have the words until today
I spent my youth in the desert sand
And gave away the best years I had
To a woman that I loved, and Uncle Sam
I didn’t know that things would go so bad
I lost years to heartache and cryin’
I gave the world all that I could give
Somewhere between losin’ everything and dyin’
You gave me a reason to live.
You picked me up, on the side of life’s highway
When my hair was turning gray
They took the best of me, and you got what was left,
And you loved me anyway
The children are grown, we’re getting older,
There’s nothing left now to try an’ explain
We’ve run the race and we made it
We paid our dues, there’s nothing else to pay.