I don't know why you gotta be angry all the time
Bruce Robison (Performed by Tim McGraw)
G - C - Am - G
Here we are what is left of a husband and a wife.
Four good kids who have a way of getting on with their life.
I'm not old but I'm getting a whole lot older every day
It's too late to keep from going crazy. I've got to get away.
C - Am7 - G
The reason's that I can't stay don't have a thing to do with being in love
D - Am - G
and I understand that loving a man shouldn't have to be this rough.
C - Am7 - G
You ain't the only one who feels like this world left you far behind.
C - Am - G
I don't know why you gotta be angry all the time.
Our boys are strong now. The spitting image of you when you were young.
I hope some day they can see past what you have become.
And I remember every time I said I'd never leave
but what I can't live with is memories of the way you used to be.
The reason's that I can't stay don't have a thing to do with being in love
and I understand that loving a man shouldn't have to be this rough.
You ain't the only one who feels like this world left you far behind.
I don't know why you gotta be angry all the time.
Twenty years came and went since I walked out of your door
I never quite made it back to the one I was before
and God it hurts me to think of you 'fore the light in your eyes was gone.
sometimes I don't know why this old world can't leave well enough alone
The reason's that I can't stay don't have a thing to do with being in love
and I understand that loving a man shouldn't have to be this rough.
You ain't the only one who feels like this world left you far behind.
I don't know why you gotta be angry all the time.
I don't know why you gotta be angry all the time.
I don't know why you gotta be angry all the time.
CONFUSION FACTOR: I saw Bruce play this live at the Broken Spoke 6/15/02
and he played it in G as written above. On the recordings with wife Kelly Willis
he plays it a half step lower, starting in F#. Tim McGraw 's popular recording
of the tune is played one step up in A.