Listen up
I've rode this mountain
Seventy years I've been alive
Choked on rocks and rattlesnakes
A wonder I've survived
Don't think I haven't had
A bronc like you try me
Everytime he thinks a monster
Is hiding 'round a tree
Well the monster's on your back son
Better try to understand
The cowboy that you're fighting now
Was born to this here land
One day you'll earn your scars
And all the fearlessness you lack
Don't worry 'bout the things that you can't see
The monster's on your back
Now hear you this
I've rode through howling hell
And wind and snow and rain
I am oblivious to misery and pain
And that iron in your gizzard
It will never go away
So long as you've got
Work to do today
There's a monster on your back son
Get your guts up off the trail
We've got a job to do
And I promise we won't fail
One day you'll earn your scars
And all the fearlessness you lack
Don't worry 'bout that ol' miss Charlais bull
The monster's on your back
You think that if you buck me off
That I won't get back on
You can stomp me into the ground
And I'd be gone
You think that this old man ain't tough
Like he once used to be
Try me one more time and you will see
There's a monster on your back son
Better start to understand
The cowboy that you're fighting now
Was born to this here land
One day you'll earn your scars
And all the fearlessness you lack
'Til then you're going to have to trust in me
The monster's on your back
There's a monster on your back