The Outsider
Rodney Crowell

You don't have to be rich
I don't have to be drunk in a ditch
You don't have to be the top of your class
I don't have to have wavers of brass

You don't have to be cute
I don't have to look good in a suit
You don't have to have a dog in his race
I don't have to have an egg on my face

The outsider is watching your back
The outsider cut me some slack
The outsider just a little off keel
The outsider is something you feel

I don't have to be straight
You don't have to be something I hate
I don't have to be white as a ghost
You don't have to be dumb as a post

I don't have to be hip
You don't have to start losin' your grip
I don't have to be right if you're wrong
You don't have to be weak if I'm strong

The outsider like a coat when you're cold
The outsider like a friend when you're old
The outsider a little devil may care
The outsider it's just something that's there

You don't wanna be a saint
I don't wanna be something I ain't
First you get a little long in the tooth
Next you're tryin' to find a fountain of youth

It's a pain in the butt
But that's the trouble when you're stuck in a rut
We don't have to find a permanent bliss
But we've got to do better than this

The outsider like a stone you don't throw
The outsider like a bomb you don't blow
The outsider like a mountain don't move
The outsider you've got nothin' to prove


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Lyrics by Rodney Crowell

  'til I Gain Control Again   'til I Gain Control Again   Above And Beyond   Adam's Song   After All This Time   Ain't No Money   Ashes By Now   Ballad Of Possum Potez   Banks Of The Old Bandera   Beautiful Despair (For James)   Best Years Of Our Lives   Big Heart   Brand New Rag   Bring It On Home To Memphis   Candy Man   Closer to Heaven   Come On Funny Feelin'   Come Sundown   Crazy Baby   Dancin' Circles Round The Sun (epictetus Speaks)   Don't Get Me Started   Earthbound   Elvira   Even Cowgirls Get the Blues   Faith Is Mine   Famous Last Words Of A Fool In Love   Fate's Right Hand   Fever On The Bayou   Forty Winters   Frankie Please   Funky And The Farm Boy   Give My Heart a Rest   Glascow Girl   Glasgow Girl   God I'm Missing You   Grandma Loved That Old Man   Heartbroke   Her Hair Was Red   Higher Mountains   Highway 17   I Ain't Livin' Long Like This   I Ain't Living Long Like This   I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried   I Don't Fall In Love So Easy   I Guess We've Been Together For Too Long   I Hardly Know How To Be Myself   I Hope You Shed a Million Tears   I Just Wanted To See You So Bad   I Know Love Is All I Need   I Walk The Line   I Walk The Line (Revisited)   I Want You #35   I Wish It Would Rain   I Wouldn?t Be Me Without You   I've Done Everything I Can   I've Done Everything I Can Do   If Looks Could Kill   If You Lived Here You'd Be Home Now   Ignorance Is the Enemy   It's A Different World Now   It's Not For Me To Judge   It's Only Rock & Roll   It's Such A Small World   Jesus Talk To Mama   Jewel of the South   Just Pleasing You   Just Say Yes   Ladder Of Love   Last Waltz   Le Danse De La Joie   Leavin' Louisiana In The Broad Daylight   Let the Picture Paint Itself   Life Is Messy   Looking For You   Love to Burn   Lovin' All Night   Loving You Makes Me Strong   Many a Long and Lonesome Highway   Maybe Next Time   Moving Work Of Art   Night's Just Right   No Memories Hanging Round   Now That We're Alone   Obscenity Prayer (Give It to Me)   Oh King Richard   Oh What a Beautiful World   Old Pipeliner   On A Real Good Night   Once in a While   Please Remember Me   Prechin' To The Choir   Queen of Hearts   Ridin' Out The Storm   Ridin' Out The Storm   Rise and Fall of Intelligent Design   Say You Love Me   Sex and Gasoline   Shame on the Moon   She Ain't Going Nowhere   She Loves the Jerk   She's Crazy for Leavin'   She's Crazy For Leaving   Shelter from the Storm   Somebody?s Shadow   Soul Searchin'   Stars on the Water   Still Learning How to Fly   Storm of Love   Stuff That Works   Telephone Road   That Ol' Door   The Ballad Of Possum Potez   The Faith Is Mine   The Ladder of Love   The Last Waltz   The Long Journey Home   The Man in Me   The Obscenity Prayer (Give It to Me)   The Rise and Fall of Intelligent Design   The Rock of My Soul   The Rose of Memphis   The Traveling Kind   The Weight of the World   Things I Wish I'd Said   Things That Go Bump in the Day   Thinking About Leaving   This Too Will Pass   This, Too, Will Pass   Time to Go Inward   Topsy Turvy   Truth Decay   U Don't Know How Much I Hate U   Victim Or A Fool   Voila An American Dream   Wandering Boy   We Can't Turn Back   We Can't Turn Back Now   What Kind Of Love   What Kind of Love [*]   When The Blue Hour Comes   Who Do You Trust   Why Don't We Talk About It   You Been on My Mind   You Can't Say We Didn't Try

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