The Life Lyrics - Kenny Chesney

1 It was early one mornin', Playa del Carmen

2 That's when I first met Jose

3 He had a twelve foot Schooner, a three foot cooler

4 Full of the catch of the day

5 And he was wrinkled from grinnin', from all of the sun he had been in

6 He was barefoot, cerveza in hand

7 He said "Gracias senor" when I paid him too much for

8 All of the snapper he had

9 Now I told him my friend it ain't nothin'

10 In the best broken Spanish I knew

11 I said I make a good livin' back home where I'm from

12 He smiled and said "amigo me too"

13 He said I fish and I play my guitar

14 I laugh at the bar with my friends

15 I go home to my wife, I pray every night

16 I can do it all over again

17 Somewhere over Texas, I thought of my Lexus

18 And all the stuff I work so hard for

19 And all the things that I've gathered, from climbin' that ladder

20 Didn't make much sense anymore

21 They say my nest egg ain't ready to hatch yet

22 They keep holdin' my feet to the fire

23 They call it payin' the price, so that one day in life

24 I'll have what I need to retire

25 And just fish and play my guitar

26 And laugh at the bar with my friends

27 And go home to my wife, and pray every night

28 I can do it all over again

29 And to think that I thought for a while there that I had it made

30 When the truth is I'm really just dyin', to live like Jose

31 And just fish, play my guitar

32 And laugh at the bar with my friends

33 Go home to my wife, pray every night

34 I can do it all over again

35 Wouldn't that be the life

36 Wouldn't that be the life