High Cost Of Fishing Lyrics

Today I launched out of Venice and trolled

The Wagon Wheel with jigs and pigs

In the cuts and pockets of the dead-end marsh canals

Caught my limit of monster bass

Came home tired cleaned the fish

And stuffed the filets in the freezer

You work to pay the cost of living

You live to play

You die someday get forgiven

But it's a damned shame about the high cost of fishing

It's a damned shame about the high cost of fishing

You need a boat motor trailer and a truck to pull 'em

Fish-finder mobile phone and GPS

Graphite rod and titanium reel

Spinner crank soft and topwater baits

Once upon a time I'd grab handfuls of earth

Out the worm garden that grew in the yard

Stuff the squirming dirt in a can

Pick a cane pole behind the shed

Walk down Orleans Avenue

To the City Park lagoons and fish till dark

You work to pay the cost of living

You live to play

You die someday get forgiven

But it's a damned shame about the high cost of fishing

It's a damned shame about the high cost of fishing

You need a boat motor trailer and a truck to pull 'em

Fish-finder mobile phone and GPS

Graphite rod and titanium reel

Spinner crank soft and topwater baits

The water was black and deep then

Swimming with bream and cats and sac-au-lait

And the possibility of a green flash

The phenomenal churn yank and splash

Of a monster bass erupting

Like a green god out of black water

You work to pay the cost of living

You live to play

You die someday get forgiven

But it's a damned shame about the high cost of fishing

It's a damned shame about the high cost of fishing

It's a damned shame about the high cost

A damned shame about the high cost

A damned shame about the high cost of fishing