Lyrics I Don't Care Anymore - Rodney Crowell

I Don't Care Anymore

I used to pull my britches on with just one thing in mind\nMake the girls believe that I’m the last one of my kind\nSilver toe tips on my boots and a mullet head of hair\nAll designed to walk into a room and make somebody stare\nI don’t care anymore if I don’t stand out in a crowd\nI was better off before I tried to make my mother proud\nI came to town a dreaming I could make my mark in spades\nForty odd years later all my best cards have been played\nIt’s a hard knock situation when the accolades bestowed\nOn your every last creation cries out middle of the road\nI don’t care anymore about the fortune and the fame\nI was better off before I tried to make myself a name\nAll the money that I blew through like some boot black off the farm\nCould not have vanished quicker if I’d shot it in my arm\nSome so and so says don’t you know the limit is the sky\nNext thing I remember I’m unlearning how to fly\nI don’t care anymore\nAll those party dolls and favors that I savored from day one\nAdd up to next to nothing after all is said and done\nA real friend tried to tell me man with all respect it’s true\nThe time to put away these things is long since overdue\nIf indeed I do get lonesome in my mansion on the hill\nThere’s this neighbor’s wife I covet for her beauty and her skill\nThe way she puts herself together sleek in vagabond couture\nMakes each mailbox conversation one more heartache to endure\nI don’t care anymore who does what and why\nI was better off before when I was just another guy\nI’ve been lied on, spied on, cried on, tried on, taken for a ride you bet\nFracked, cracked, smacked jack, what you see is what you get\nI’ve been spit at, hit at, quit at, shit at, shouldn’t hurt a bit at,\nwhat I’m trying to get at\nFool me once shame on me, fool me twice and put the blame on\nI don’t care anymore