That's What You Get For Thinkin'

[couchgrouch]

That's What You Get For ThinkingWhen you took me home to meet your momI had Heineken breath and a Hank Jr. shirt onyour mom got one good look at meand that Baptist lady through the Good Book at meI heard you tell her in the other roomthat it was just my age, you thought you could changemy rowdy attitudebut that's what you get for thinkin'that's what you get for thinkin'that's how it's gotta bewhen you assumeyou make an assoutta you and meyeah, that's what you get for thinkin'well, we'd been married pushing seven yearsI grew Charlie Daniel's belly and ZZ Top's beardmy teenage muscle slowly turned to flaball those six packs swallowed my six pack absI thought sure you'd always be herebut the night you said goodbye,a sad tear hung from my eyewhen I said to the mirror"that's what you get for thinkin'that's what you get for thinkin'that's how it's gotta bewhen you assumeyou make an assoutta you and meyeah, that's what you get for thinkin'"well, I was proud and southernyou thought I was way too stubbornto change or try n understandbut when I showed up at your mother's doorshe thought Randy Travis was on her porchkissing her lonely daughter's handbut I told you both"that's what you get for thinkin'that's what you get for thinkin'that's how it's gotta bewhen you assumeyou make an assoutta you and meyeah, that's what you get for thinkin'"(c)2004 Robert George