Laying My Life On The Line

(album: Time As We Know It - The Songs Of Jerry Jeff Walker - 2012)

Laying my life on the line
That's what I do all the time
I find myself each night
Facing a white light
Laying my life on the line

Music is my way of life
Sure it gets crazy sometimes
But it takes me places
Where I see the faces
Of people I've touched with my lines

Driving the road here tonight
Thoughts were of Malita and I
How her love sustained me
When the road almost claimed me
And laid my life out on the line

Sometimes it all feels so good
Sometimes I just feel far from home
Sometimes I wonder
Am I just stumbling through here?
Have been on this road for too long?

So here I am out here tonight
Playing the songs that I like
'Cause the magic in singing
Comes through when you're bringing
Your whole life laid on the line