It was early one mornin', Playa del Carmen   That's when I first met Jose   He had a 12 foot Schooner, a 3 foot cooler   Full of the catch of the day      And he was wrinkled from grinnin'   From all of the sun he had been in   He was barefoot, cerveza in hand   He said gracias senor when I paid him too much for   All of the Snapper he had      Now I told him my friend it ain't nothin'   In the best broken Spanish I knew   I said I make a good livin' back home where I'm from   He smiled and said amigo me too      He said I fish and I play my guitar   I laugh at the bar with my friends   I go home to my wife, I pray every night   I can do it all over again      Somewhere over Texas I thought of my Lexus   And all the stuff I work so hard for   And all the things that I've gathered from climbing that ladder   Didn't make much sense anymore      They say my nest egg ain't ready to hatch yet   They keep holding my feet to the fire   They call it paying the price so that one day in life   I'll have what I need to retire      And just fish and play my guitar   And laugh at the bar with my friends   Go home to my wife and pray every night   I can do it all over again      And to think that I thought for a while there that I had it made   When the truth is I'm really just dying to live like Jose      And just fish, play my guitar   And laugh at the bar with my friends   Go home to my wife and pray every night   I can do it all over again      Wouldn't that be the life?   Wouldn't that be the life?