Cold Hard Facts of Life-Porter Wagoner

[ti:Cold Hard Facts Of Life] [ar:Porter Wagoner] [al:Porter Wagoner] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Cold Hard Facts of Life - Porter Wagoner [00:00.02]Written by：B. Anderson [00:00.04] [00:08.12]I got back in town a day [00:11.36]Before I'd planned to [00:13.62] [00:15.78]I smiled and said [00:17.39]I'll sure surprise my wife [00:20.68] [00:23.67]I don't think I'll phone [00:25.96] [00:27.33]I'll just head on home [00:29.84] [00:30.43]For I didn't know [00:32.73]The cold hard facts of life [00:35.37] [00:38.13]I passed a little wine store on the corner [00:42.83] [00:45.41]I pictured big champagne by candle light [00:51.49] [00:52.93]I stopped the car right [00:55.05]Then got out and hurried in [00:59.27] [01:00.18]My mind not on the cold hard facts of life [01:05.19] [01:07.71]A stranger stood [01:09.28]There laughing by the counter [01:13.71] [01:15.06]He said "I'll take two bottles of your best" [01:20.58] [01:22.42]Her husband's out of town [01:24.93] [01:25.44]And there's a party [01:27.10] [01:30.03]He winkled as if to say [01:32.19] [01:33.19]You know the rest [01:34.52] [01:37.03]I left the store two steps [01:39.48] [01:39.99]Behind the stranger [01:42.25] [01:44.35]From there to my house [01:46.52]His car stayed in sight [01:49.12] [01:51.71]But it wasn't till he turned into my drive [01:56.59] [01:57.23]That I learned [01:58.15] [01:59.07]I was witnessing the cold hard facts of life [02:04.49] [02:06.57]I drove around the block till I was dizzy [02:12.20] [02:13.71]Each time the noise [02:15.75]Came louder from within [02:18.62] [02:21.19]And then I saw our bottle there beside me [02:27.01] [02:28.50]And I drank a fifth of [02:30.78]Courage and walked in [02:33.54] [02:36.38]Lord you should've seen their frantic faces [02:41.14] [02:43.39]They screamed and cried [02:44.84] [02:45.54]Please put away that knife [02:48.43] [02:50.95]I guess I'll go to hell [02:53.28] [02:54.21]Or I'll rot here in this cell [02:57.37] [02:58.32]But who taught who [02:59.62] [03:00.13]The cold hard facts of life [03:02.73] [03:05.85]Who taught who the cold hard facts of life