Well,
I had the privilege of getting to know Jake early on in his career,
way before he
was famous.
And
we wrote a lot of songs together,
had a lot of success.
And this is one of them songs.
I had seven songs on his first album.
And this was his first top hit, top five hit.
And I'm lucky to be on it.
Had a one night stand with my best friend's baby sister.
Thank you.
To this day he still won't speak to me.
I pawned my grandpa's old guitar in college.
For a case of beer and a tank of gasoline.
And I took a swing at my old man one Christmas.
I never dreamed that it would be his last.
I wish my mom had wrung my neck when
she caught me with those cigarettes.
Which reminds me,
I'm down to my last pack.
If I had a dime
for half the things I did,
it didn't make no sense at all.
I'd be living a little higher on the hog if only I'd have known.
Later on down the road,
I'd look back and not like what I see.
I'd have changed a lot of things,
starting with me.
I called my brother everything I could think of.
That night he wouldn't bail me out of jail.
I lost a job most folks around here would die for.
But laying out all
night and raising hell.
And I let a woman that I loved slip through my fingers.
Chalk another dumb move up to my foolish pride.
I wasn't there standing by the bed.
I went to preach about his head.
With the family the day my grandma died.
And if I had a dime
for half the things I did,
it didn't make no sense at all.
I'd be living a little higher on the hog if only I'd have known.
Later on down the road,
I'd look back and not like what I see.
I'd have changed a lot of things,
starting with me.
If only I'd have known.
Later on down the road,
I'd look back and not like what I see.
I'd have
changed a lot of things.
A lot of things,
starting with me.
Starting with me.
Yeah.