This is my first life, or is my last life? Am I gonna make it to nirvana? Am I ever gonna see God? Is space really expanding? Am I getting bigger in my chair? I want to know it all and see it all too I'm a southern man but I'm an atheist A Pudding Swamp kid with tattooed fists I'm never in the middle and always on top Always screaming, "f** the cops" I'm a cosmic cowboy I'm a cosmic cowboy They say my uncle Pete was a hard drinker He'd get drunk by himself pa** out in the field behind his store My great granddaddy Cook was an itinerant preacher Always preaching about the liquor that he'd been drinking the night before I'm a southern man but I'm an atheist A Pudding Swamp kid with tattooed fists I'm never in the middle and always on top Always screaming, "f** the cops" I'm a cosmic cowboy That's what I think I'm a southern man but I'm an atheist A Pudding Swamp kid with tattooed fists I'm never in the middle and always on top Always screaming, "f** the cops" I'm a cosmic cowboy Cosmic cowboy