What a Man's Got to Do

歌詞

There's six hundred dollars tucked into his jeans Burnin' a hole in his heart He stares at the phone in a cheap motel And he knows that it won't get him far Got a half-busted shoulder on a bull down in Houston There once was a time that he didn't mind losin' But it's all on the line now and then some too And he just don't know what to do There's a Greyhound Station with a midnight ride That'd take him back home before dawn And he could pick up that phone and hear her voice on the line And like a flash of wild lightnin' be gone But another bus leaves for Laredo at sunrise As he fights back the tears fallin' down from his blue eyes He whispers her name and a prayer to get through 'Cause he just don't know what to do It's a hundred year story of struggle and strife It's the pain and the glory of every cowboy's life When there's just enough money to ride or go home You fall down for good or you get back on There's a chute flyin' open down in Laredo Texas The crowd comes alive with the rush There's a cowboy spinnin' and a Brahma-cross buckin' He's ridin' all out or bust He's fightin' and spurrin' They're twistin' and turnin' And inside the fire it just keeps on burnin' And he calls when it's over to say I love you But a man's got to do what a man's got to do