Karaoké Texas In My Rearview Mirror Mac Davis

I was just fifteen and outta control

Lost to James Dean and rock and roll

I knew down deep in my country soul that I had to get away

Hollywood was a lady in red who danced in my dreams as I tossed in bed

I knew I'd wind up in jail or dead if I had to stay

I thought happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rear view mirror

My mama kept callin' me home but I just did not wanna hear her

And the vision was gettin' clearer in my dreams

So I laid out one night in June

Stoned on the glow of the Texas moon

Hummin' an old

Buddy Holly tune called Peggy Sue

With my favorite jeans and a cheap guitar

I ran off chasin' a distant star

If Buddy Holly could make it that far then

I figured I could too

And I thought happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rear view mirror

My mama kept callin' me home but I just did not wanna hear her

And the vision was gettin' clearer in my dreams

But the Hollywood moon didn't smile the same old smile that I'd grown up with

The lady in red just wanted my last dime

And I cried myself to sleep at night

Too dumb to run

Too scared to fight

And too proud to admit it at the time

So I got me some gigs on Saturday nights

Not much more than orchestrated fights

I'd come home drunk and I'd try to write but the words came out wrong

Hell bent and bound for a wasted youth

Too much gin and not enough vermouth

And no one to teach me how to seek the truth before I put it into song

I still thought happiness was Lubbock Texas

In my rear view mirror

My mama kept callin' me home but I just could not would not hear her

And the vision was gettin' clearer in my dreams

Well I thank God each and every day for givin' me the music and the words to say

I'd a-never made it any other way

He was my only friend

Now I sleep a little better at night

When I look in the mirror in the mornin' light

The man I see was both wrong and right

He's goin' home again

I guess happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rear view mirror

But now happiness is Lubbock Texas growin' nearer and dearer

And the vision is gettin' clearer in my dreams

And I think I finally know just what it means

And when I die you can bury me in Lubbock Texas

In my jeans