You know somethin', Luke?
If you ride like lightin', you're gonna crash like thunder

Welcome to the dog days, darlin'
Welcome to hard times, too
Are the tumultuous times of my troubled youth
Just a-troublin' you?

I was born in the dog days, darlin'
I ain't ever eat from no silver spoon
All this bureaucratic, gotta-have-it, surface-level shit's
Got me feelin' blue

On the day I was born
They told me I would never be somethin'
Gotta make it through them dog days, darlin'
If you wanna go far, then you oughta go alone
But I ain't a boy, darlin', I'm all the way grown

Welcome to hard work, brother
Welcome to me workin' harder
Welcome to me bein' stronger for longer
And always goin' just a little bit farther
Let me tell you 'bout the dog days, darlin'
Let me tell you about writin' a song
Let me tell you about writin' things down your whole life
Just to spend it rightin' your wrongs

Welcome to dog days, darlin'
Welcome to young manhood
Welcome to everything you ever said
and everything you ever did
Been misunderstood

On the day I was born
They told me I would never be somethin'
Gotta make it through them dog days, darlin'
If you wanna go far, then you oughta go alone
But I ain't a boy, darlin', I'm all the way grown
I ain't a boy, darlin', I'm all the way grown
I ain't a boy, darlin', I'm all the way grown
I ain't a boy, darlin', I'm all the way grown