Little cowboy you grew up in them bars
Just'a watchin'n them old folks sing and play guitar
Swore that someday you'd be underneith them lights
And he would make as much money as anyone else there that night
Ten years later he's just downtown 'n Nashville
Sellin' something that ain't for sale
Sometimes its heaven out here
Sometimes its hard to tell
An old man now could play along with the radio
How he could do that there ain't no way we could know
He could sing songs and bring tears to your eyes
But there ain't nobody listenin' in those bars downtown every saturday night
He's seen some good times, ya'll
But he's seen mostly, mostly rain and hail
Sometimes its heaven out here
Sometimes its hard to tell
I'll tell you now
Sometimes its heaven out here
Sometimes its hard to tell
Use'd to rise with cloudy skies and go to work with spider john
And he'd always play that same damn country song
We were swimmin' downwords just like a bomb
And it was hard at times to tell just how far down we had gone
But we would wake up now, just stairin' up some how
From the bottom of the well
Thought that was heaven now boys
Lookin' back its hard to tell
I'll tell you now
Sometimes its heaven out here
Sometimes its hard to tell
She must have been now about eightteen years old
We were always in a hurry so we headed out on the road
Round the corner now the car started to fish tail
And we ended up meetin her old friend the gaurd rail
But I'm pretty sure that I don't hate her now
But I'm pretty sure she still hates herself
Sometimes its heaven out here
Sometimes its hard to tell
I'll tell you now
Sometimes its heaven out here
Sometimes its hard to tell