Texas In My Rear View Mirror lyrics

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 momma kept callin' me home

But I just did not wanna hear her

And the vision was gettin' clearer

In my dreams

So I lit out one night in June

Stoned on the glow of the Texas moon

Hummin' an old Buddy Holly tune

Called "Peggy Sue" (Pretty 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 momma 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 in a song

I still thought happiness

Was Lubbock, Texas

In my rear view mirror

My momma 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

And now I sleep a little better at night

And 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

Growing 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