So this next song is about

Turning 30 years old

Realizing that all your friends have jobsAnd kids and houses

And then you′re still traveling around the country

With your best friends in a 15 passenger van

Playing music for people every night

And coming to the realization

That that ain't a half bad way to live

This′s a song called, "The Losing Side of 25"

All my friends are growing up

Changing pretty girls' last names

And I'm still finding my way

Rolling down that highway

Playing a much younger man′s game

Every night we′re drinking

In dive bars and dance halls

They're all at that age

Where they′re all having babies

And picking out the nursery color walls

They all ask me how I'm doing

I just smile and realize

That there are different roads to happiness

I took a different path I guess

Came out of the other side just fine

That losing side of 25

Guess my mom and dad did the best they could

To raise me the right way

But I leaned more to the wrong

And I started writing songs

Thinking I had something to say

So every week at the Food Lion

All the other parents boast

′Bout there kids graduating

Getting higher educations

In the big city jobs that they chose

My parents asked me how I'm doing

I hang my head and close my eyes

They say don′t throw your life away

Go and get a job that pays

We love you, we know that you tried

That losing side of 25

Yes, I might never have a mansion

Might never own me a home

But I got a couple of songs

Some boys that I call friends

And a pretty girl that I can call my own

Yes, I might never be a millionaire

That's alright with me

'Cause I′ve done the things I wanted to

And said the things I needed to

And seen the things I wanted to see

So when they all ask me how I′m doing

I just smile and realize

That there are different roads to happiness

I took a different path, I guess

Came out on the other side just fine

That losing side of 25

Yes, there are different roads to happiness

I took a different path, I guess

Figured out there's no wrong or right

Just a different side of 25

Y′all still with us, Atlanta, Georgia?

Hell yeah