Ropeless cowboy, dopeless hippy

 

I’m a Cowboy with no rope

Flippin hippy with no dope

Yep I’m  livin dopeless and  I ain’t livin hopeless 

He’s the everlasting way to cope 

I get tested, I get tried 

I’ve many mistakes amassed 

Cut to the bone, yet my hearts been now known 

Since the second the old guy passed 

There sits the old joker, he’s hapless and weak 

I used to fear  and dread him

If I’m no longer dopeless (again) and I’m happening upon hopeless (again)

It’s ‘cause I mistakenly fed him

Thank God I get chances, every morning’s anew 

I take up my mantle and walk 

New day in the sun, the new man has won 

I claim victory over anxious self-talk

It’s not me with the answers, It’s all in His Word

It’s there for the new guy to wield 

Top weapon to wave, the Truth it will save 

On every battlefield 

There I ride in the valley, there I am on the hilltop 

Used to think it was all up and down 

I now see as I look back, it’s more like railroad track

Both tracks, good and bad, cover ground

Ground cover is good, least I’m on top 

I’ve seen what the old guy leads to

Now Peppered & salted, one day I’m exalted 

In heaven I’m shiny and new. 

Psalms 139:23-24

Search me, God, and know my heart;

test me and know my anxious thoughts.

See if there is any offensive way in me,

and lead me in the way everlasting.