Take Your Best Shot Now-Cowboy Troy

[ti:Take Your Best Shot Now] [ar:Cowboy Troy] [al:Black In The Saddle] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Take Your Best Shot Now - Cowboy Troy [00:23.53]In the winter December of '89 [00:24.98] [00:25.62]I picked up my pen [00:27.09]Started makin' my rhymes [00:28.10] [00:28.62]I appreciate the listener for takin' the time [00:31.46]Cuz I'm pourin' out my soul with every lyric and line [00:34.40]An I remember what it's like [00:35.71]To be the focus of a punchline [00:37.64]Now the phone rings when the party's at crunch time [00:40.08] [00:40.69]I was humble but you took it for weakness [00:42.89]Listen close and take notes [00:44.47]While the professor teaches [00:45.78]Maintain' my footin' [00:46.45]No shiftin' sand [00:47.06]It ain't quicksand [00:47.59]Cuz above ground [00:48.10]I still stand [00:48.87]Move from the shadow [00:49.61]On the way to the Big Man [00:50.68]Strive for connection [00:51.18]Without complexion [00:51.69]Changin' the game in a new direction [00:53.01]Keepin' you're attention [00:53.54]While I'm mic flexin' [00:54.21]Band on Grand Ole Opry [00:55.22]You can't stop me [00:56.34]So take you're best shot now [00:57.85] [00:59.65]Cuz I'm climbin' so high [01:01.80] [01:03.24]You'll run out of ammo [01:04.81] [01:05.75]Before you touch the sky [01:07.42] [01:08.86]You think you're the first one [01:10.97] [01:11.55]To try an bring me down [01:13.75] [01:14.64]Buddy you don't realize [01:16.50] [01:17.12]How long I've been around [01:18.76] [01:19.28]Take you're best shot now [01:20.78] [01:22.86]I never lived in the hood [01:24.16]But I used to work there [01:25.65]Say man ain't you work in that shoe store [01:27.43]Yeah I used to clerk there [01:28.93]Rollin' through Dallas [01:29.97]Now they go berserk there [01:31.32]See the corner of my mouth [01:32.62]It's called a smirk there [01:34.11] [01:34.97]Twinkle Twinkle Nashville Star [01:37.45]Is that you with the 20's on you're car [01:39.93] [01:40.49]Is that you on my t v screen [01:43.07]With the Musik Mafia on you're team [01:45.96]I've been strugglin' and strainin' [01:47.21]Through misery and pain [01:48.62]Tryin' to get the radio dj's to say my name [01:50.98] [01:51.90]People used to laugh when I dressed like an offical [01:54.46]Now I'm eattin' steaks 'stead of chewin' on the gristle [01:57.34]I've had breakfast in Hamburg dinner in London [01:59.95]Both in the same day and man it leaves you wonderin' [02:03.39]I hit the restaurants now they play me close [02:05.91]They get their cameras when I butter my toast [02:07.91]So take you're best shot now [02:09.09] [02:11.05]Cuz I'm climbin' so high [02:13.24] [02:14.67]You'll run out of ammo [02:16.27] [02:17.07]Before you touch the sky [02:18.72] [02:20.27]You think you're the first one [02:23.06]To try an bring me down [02:24.98] [02:26.05]Buddy you don't realize [02:28.58]How long I've been around [02:30.59]Take you're best shot now [02:31.96] [02:54.36]You might see me on the television here or there [02:56.87]But when you come [02:57.82]To the show you see them hands in the air [03:00.22]And when I ask Are you with me [03:01.80]You hear the reply [03:02.56]The fans say Aw yeah til the day that we die [03:06.04]Or at least until we're sick [03:07.24]Of what you got to say [03:08.59]Well let me tell you somethin' partner [03:10.30]That ain't happenin' today [03:11.59]So get you somma that and listen to me [03:14.29]To spell country boy you need CBT [03:16.49]So take you're best shot now [03:17.86] [03:19.57]Cuz I'm climbin' so high [03:22.27] [03:23.19]You'll run out of ammo [03:24.83] [03:25.62]Before you touch the sky [03:27.51] [03:28.92]You think you're the first one [03:30.83] [03:31.52]To try an bring me down [03:33.46] [03:34.65]Buddy you don't realize [03:36.41] [03:37.06]How long I've been around [03:39.35]Take you're best shot now [03:40.67] [03:42.70]Cuz I'm climbin' so high [03:45.00] [03:46.01]You'll run out of ammo [03:47.53] [03:48.48]Before you touch the sky [03:50.37] [03:51.67]You think you're the first one [03:53.90] [03:54.50]To try an bring me down [03:56.22] [03:57.44]Buddy you don't realize [04:00.06]How long I've been around [04:02.07]Take you're best shot now