C Thomas Howell - Hell of a Life Lyrics

Helped save an alien when I was just thirteen
Shot down a helicopter yellin' wolverines
Recited Robert Frost staring at the sun
Held my ground at the Devil's Den with an empty gun

Smoked marijuana with Cheech and Chong
Survived a plane crash in the Amazon
Ann-Margret made love to me on A Tiger's Tale
Spent a lifetime in prison hoping to make bail

It's a hell of a life, the one that I'm livin'
I gotta keep moving on, doin' the best that I can
Do a little less hurtin' and a little more forgivin'
'Cause son that's the kind of life that makes a man

Spent two years with my buddy Swayze
Even taught him how to rope and how to ride
You might've missed that one we did with Jamie Lee Curtis
But it had some lovely benefits on the side

I played a killer on TV called The Reaper
That a lot of folks have come to love and hate
Well I guess if I had to pick me out a favorite
It'd still be the little Greaser from '68

It's a hell of a life, the one that I'm livin'
I gotta keep moving on, doin' the best that I can
Do a little less hurtin' and a little more forgivin'
'Cause son that's the kind of life that makes a man

Fought me some dinosaurs in the land that time forgot
I went back to the future before Michael J. Fox

Well I made that boy I was a million dollars
Way before he turned twenty one
Well I spent every dime at least a dozen times
But I won't ever be accused of never having fun

The wife is gone, the kids are grown and I'm on my own
I'm starting over trying to write and sing
Looking back if I had to live my life all over again
I swear I wouldn't change a goddamn thing

Hell of a life, the one that we're livin'
I gotta keep moving on, doin' the best that I can
Do a little less hurtin' and a little more forgivin'
'Cause son that's the kind of life that makes a man

I said, son that's the kinda life that'll make a man