Sometimes You've Just Gotta Ride

His name was Twister he lived in the pasture



Right down from my daddy's farm



They say there's a cowboy who once tried to ride him



Now he's mending fences with only one arm



On my way home from school somehow he always knew



Just when I'd come walking by



And he'd stand at the gate like the keeper of fate



And we both knew that one day I'd just have to ride



Now one crack of dawn well I slipped my boots on



And walked out towards that just rising sun



My heart skipped a beat when I heard his four feet



Pounding down on the red dirt like it was a drum



He walked up against me as if to convince me



His heart was easily tamed



Then I came to staring up at the blue and the black



With a handful of mane



Well I thought he'd go one way but he went the other



I'm lucky, I even survived



You can't always sit on the fence while the world passes by



Sometimes you just gotta ride



Well, the years have gone by since that morning I climbed



On that shadow that cut through the fields



My shoulder still hurts when the weather turns worse



Sometimes you find the strength in the wounds that don't heal



Between horses and heartaches, women and mistakes



I've been through more than I should



But I strapped a saddle across every battle



And held on as long as I could



Well I thought he'd go one way but he went the other



I'm lucky, I even survived



You can't always sit on the fence while the world passes by



Sometimes you just gotta ride



Well I thought he'd go one way but he went the other



I'm lucky, I even survived



You can't always sit on the fence while the world passes by



Sometimes you just gotta ride