It Ain’t Over Yet

[Verse 1: Rodney Crowell]

It's like I'm sitting at a bus stop

Waiting for a train

Exactly how I got here is hard to explain

My heart's in the right place

What's left of it, I guess

My heart ain't the problem

It's my mind that's a total mess

With these rickety old legs

And these watery eyes

It's hard to believe

That I could pass for anybody's prize

And here's what I know

About the gifts that God gave

Ah you can't take 'em with you

When you go to the grave

[Chorus: John Paul White]

It ain't over yet

As someone who oughtta know

Not so very long ago

We were both hung out to dry

It ain't over yet

You can mark my word

I don't care what you think you heard

We're still learning how to fly

It ain't over yet

[Verse 2: Crowell]

For fools like me

Who were built for the chase

It takes a right kind of woman

To help you put it all in place

It only happened once in my life

But man, you should have seen

Her hair two shades of foxtail red

Her eyes some far-out sea blue green

I got caught up making a name for myself

You know what that's about

One day your ship comes rolling in

The next day it rolls right back out

And you can't take for granted none of this shit

The higher up you fly, boys

The harder it is you're gonna get hit

[Chorus: White]

It ain't over yet

I'll say this about that

You can get up off the mat

Or you can lay there 'til you die

It ain't over yet

Here's the truth, my friend

You can't pack it in

And we both know why

It ain't over yet

[Bridge: Roseanne Cash, Cash and Crowell]

Silly boys blind to get their first

Think of second chances as some kind of curse

I've known you forever and ever it's true

If you came by it easy you wouldn't be you

You make me laugh

You make me cry

You make me forget myself

[Verse 3: Crowell]

Back when down on my luck

You kept me up for days

You were there with the right words

To help me crawl out of the maze

And when I'd almost convinced myself

I was hipper than thou

You stepped up with a warning shot

Fired sweet and low across the bow

No you don't walk on water

And your sarcasm stings

But the way you move through this old world

Sure makes a case for angel wings

I was half way to the bottom

When you threw me that line

And I'll quote you now, verbatim

Get your head out of your own behind

[Chorus: All, Crowell, Cash]

It ain't over yet

What you wanna bet

One more cigarette

Ain't gonna send you to the grave

It ain't over yet

I seen your new girlfriend

Thinks you're the living end

Great big ol' sparkle in her eye

It ain't over yet