[Verse]
The sun sets slow over my one-horse town,
With whiskey in my hand and the past weighing me down.
I danced with the devil, and I gambled with fate,
With a lonesome heart that love couldn’t sate.
[Verse 2]
Jones taught me sorrow, Cash sang my sins,
Conway made me wonder where love begins.
Jennings brought the outlaw inside my chest,
Raising my own hell, never needin' no rest.
[Chorus]
Whiskey and women, the cards I was dealt,
Every hand I've played, every ache I've felt.
Heartbreak and trouble, they play their own tune,
I bet it all on love, always lost too soon.
[Verse 3]
Lit a cigarette in the glow of a neon sign,
Promises whispered, but none of 'em mine.
Learned from a king in a rhinestone crown,
There’s no salvation in love when it lets you down.
[Bridge]
The game table of life’s stained with my regrets,
Aces and jokers are all that I get.
Played my hand reckless, lost more than I won,
Living wild as the wind till my days are done.
[Chorus]
Whiskey and women, the cards I was dealt,
Every hand I've played, every ache I've felt.
Heartbreak and trouble, they play their own tune,
I bet it all on love, always lost too soon.