lowdown on the highlife

he played guitar in a honky-tonk band, he drank jack daniels, black label brand, he was the life of the party, till they closed down the bar, in the eyes of a young boy, he was a star, he'd say, "son, don't you run down the roads that i've run, and don't go and sing all the songs that i've sun, 'cause this kind of livin' takes its toll on a man, and through the smoke and the neon i saw it first hand, i got the lowdown on the highlife, bust still here i am.", the blues and the bottle held him under their spell, took him to heaven and put us through hell, well, sometimes i feel him up on this stage, his restless spirit, still runs through my veins, i got the lowdown on the highlife, but still here i am, mmm.