It’s those honky tonks

Loose women, whiskey, it’s not my fault

Though I know you don’t believe me

That’s not who I am

It’s these rovin’ eyes,

Not me, it’s these lips that lie

I got urges I just can’t deny

It’s so hard to be a man

It’s that damned old sun

Comes up and I’m not home

And then there’s all that complaining

To go through again

Then things come apart

There lies my broken heart

and it’s all because

It’s so hard to be a man

I know you might see me out on the town

and you’ll think to yourself

That looks like fun, that don’t look like pain

I know you might see me with these crazy arms

Around somebody else

Well that’s easy, that’s easy to explain

It’s those honky tonks

Loose women, whiskey, it’s not my fault

Though I know you don’t believe me

That’s not who I am

It’s these rovin’ eyes,

Not me, it’s these lips that lie

I got urges I just can’t deny

It’s so hard to be a man

People talk to me

Tell me how I ought to be

and I know they mean well

But they don’t understand

It’s these old guitars

Not me, it’s those ramblin stars

It’s a dusty road, it’s a heavy load

It’s so hard to be a man

It’s a dusty road, it’s a heavy load

It’s so hard to be a man

and I know you don’t believe me

but it’s so hard to be a man