The Cost Of Living - Don Henley/Merle Haggard

Some folks don't like workin' too 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

I play it as it lays

It's the cost of living

Everyone pays

You can't live in memories

All your gold of yesterday

Or spend your whole life grieving

For the one that got away

All my sense says let her go

But your heart disobeys

It's the cost of living

And everyone pays

Blue shadows fall all around me

Still I don't regret a single day

When 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 grey

It's the cost of living

And everyone pays

It's the cost of living

And everyone pays