Songtext Livin' or dyin' Drew Kennedy

Livin' or dyin'

Growing up in Birmingham
middle of the state in Alabam
High on speed but short on plans
to get out of here
2 years in jail of my 18
in the slammer and acting mean
Convinced that I was going straight to hell

Got loose with a siren cry
snow was falling on the city lights
7 inches the first night
my hands as cold as stone
Hopped a train and turned my back
fell asleep with the clicking tracks
I’d take a bullet or a heart attack
before I went back there
No time to catch my breath or say a prayer

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I went in a lamb I’ll go out a lion
Walking a fine line between living and dying
I shot that man before he did me
They locked me up and they lost the key
And I don’t think no one will be crying
If I’m living or dying

I hit Texas in a couple of days
Mexico was just a mile away
You cross the Rio and you know what they say
there’s no turning ‘round
Fell in with a Mexican gang
took the place of the man who was hanged
The Federalese shouldn’t do that thing
but they killed him away
Home got a little further away

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I’ve been here for 20 years
Liked the senoritas and Mexican beer
Bought a little farm and a couple of steer
and I worked the land
Running weed cross the border line
keeps the money flowing for me and mine
But the older I get the deeper the lines
running through my face
20 years been living without a trace

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