The Cost Of Living - Don Henley, Merle Haggard

Some folks don’t like workin' hard

Some folks don’t like rain

Some folks love to tell you

All about their aches and pains

Me, I take the hand I’m dealt

And I play it as it lays

It’s the cost of living

And everyone pays

You can’t live in memories

Of all your golden yesterdays

Or spend your whole life grieving

For the one that got away

Common sense says «let her go»

But your heart disobeys

It’s the cost of living

And everyone pays

Blue shadows falling all around me

Still I don’t regret a single day

I look in the mirror now

I see that time can be unkind

But I know every wrinkle

And I earned every line

So, wear it like a royal crown

When you get old and gray

It’s the cost of living

And everyone pays

It’s the cost of living

And everyone pays