Contrary To Ordinary Lyrics - Jerry Jeff Walker

Billy Jim Baker 

I never live my life through other people's eyes 

I guess I've always been the one they said was 

Too tall, too late, too early 

Yeah, he's the one 

You ought to be in the circus 

You're having too much fun 

Just a one-man band, a one man gypsy circus 

Finding out each piece of the puzzle has a purpose 

Drifting and dreaming 

Yeah, that must be my fate 

Always grinning down the devil's throat 

Blazing with aces and eights 

And I was contrary to ordinary 

Even as a child 

Fast freights made me wonder 

The full moon still drives me wild 

And stories do come true 

You just got to live your life in episodes 

With one eye on a lady 

And one eye still on that open road 

And when I die don't put no tombstone on my grave 

Just have my friends throw a great big party 

Toss my ashes out across the waves 

Don't bring no preacher man down 

Just to tighten up my past 

Just tell 'em how I like to live 

I like to make sing and dance and laugh 

And I was contrary to ordinary 

Even as a child 

Fast freights made me wonder 

Full moons still drive me wild 

And stories do come true 

If you live your life in episodes 

With one eye on a lady 

And one eye on that open road