I used to think I love you's were just for fools I never had time for that and besides I was way too cool I burned up my younger years in an alcohol flame I'm breaking all the rules of love and life and just playing the games The life of a drifter ain't quite all it's cracked up to be I find myself more and more on bended knees Begging for forgiveness for the pain I might have caused And fighting the devil with my back up against the wall I must have broke a thousand hearts, or maybe two I'd love and I'd leave em Lord and I'd find somebody new Never realizing I was the victim all along And I'd need a lifetime, Lord and lifetime trying to right all my wrongs The life of a drifter ain't quite all it's cracked up to be I find myself more and more on bended knees Begging for forgiveness for the pain I might have caused And fighting the devil with my back up against the wall The life of a drifter ain't quite all it's cracked up to be I find myself more and more on bended knees Begging for forgiveness for the pain I might have caused And fighting the devil with my back up against the wall