The Righteous Path

I gotta brand new car that drinks a bunch a gas

Got a house in a neighborhood thats fading fast

Got a dog and a cat that don't fight too much

Got a few hundred channels to keep me in touch

Got a beautiful wife and three tow-headed kids

A couple big secrets I'd kill to keep hid

I don't God but i fear his wrath

I'm trying to keep focused on the righteous path

I've got a couple of opinions that I hold dear

Got a whole lotta debt and a whole lotta fear

Got a grill in the backyard and a case of beers

Got a boat that ain't seen the water in years

More bills than money I can do the math

I'm trying to keep focused on the righteous path

I'm trying to keep focus as I drive down the road

On the ditches and the curves and the heavy load

Ain't bitchin about things that ain't in my grasp

Just trying to hold steady on the righteous path

I gotta friend of mine that I've known all my life

Who can't get it right no matter how hard he tries

He's got kids he don't see and several ex wives

and a list of bad decisions bout 80 miles wide

Trouble with the law and the IRS

Where he'll get the money is anybody's guess

He's a long way off but if you was to ask

He'll say I'm trying to stay on the righteous path

We are trying to keep focused as we drive down the road

like back in highschool before the world turned cold

Now the brakes are thin and the curves are fast

Just trying to hold steady on the righteous path

We're hanging out and we're hanging on

we're trying our best we can to keep on keeping on

We got messed up minds for these messed up times

And it's a thin thin line

Separating his from mine

I'm trying to keep focused on the righteous path

80 miles an hour with a worn out map

no time for self pity or a load of crap

Just trying to keep steady on the righteous path