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Texas In My Rearview Mirror (1980)
Mac Davis

Mac Davis
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Texas In My Rearview Mirror (1980)
I was just fifteen and out of 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 have to stay

I thought happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror
My mama kept calling me home but I just did not want to hear her
And the vision was getting clearer in my dream

So I let out one night in June stoned on the glow of the Texas moon
Humming an old Buddy Holly tune called Peggy Sue (pretty, pretty Peggy Sue)
With my favorite jeans and a cheap guitar I ran off chasing a distant star
If Buddy Holly could make it that far then I figured I could too

I thought happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror
My mama kept calling me home but I just did not want to hear her
And the vision was getting clearer in my dream

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 night not much more than orchestrated fights
I’d come home drunk and I tried to write but the words came out all wrong
Hell bent and bound for a wasted youth too much gin and not enough vermouth
And no one to teach me to seek the truth before I put an end to this song

I still thought happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror
My mama kept calling me home but I just could not, would not hear her
And the vision was getting clearer in my dream

Well I thank God each and every day for giving me the music and the words to say
I’d never had made it any other way he was my only friend
Now I sleep a little better each night and when I look in the mirror in the morning light
The man I see was both wrong and right he’s going home again

I guessed happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror
But now happiness was Lubbock Texas growing nearer and dearer
And the vision was getting clearer in my dream
And I think I finally know just what it means
And when I die you can bury me in Lubbock Texas in my jeans


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  (If You Add) All The Love In The World   A Poor Man's Gold   Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me   Beginning To Feel The Pain   Burnin' Thing   Dream Me Home   Everybody Loves a Love Song   Forever Lovers   Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife   Half And Half (Song For Sarah)   Home   Hooked On Music   I Believe in Music   I Believe In Music (1981)   I'll Paint You A Song   In the Ghetto   It's Hard to Be Humble   It's Hard To Be Humble (1980   Let's Keep It That Way   Lucas Was A Redneck   Lucus Was A Redneck   Memories   Oh Lord It's Hard To Be Humble   Once You Get Used To It   One Hell of a Woman   Poem for My Little Lady   Poor Boy Boogie   Poor Man's Gold   Rock & Roll (i Gave You The Best Years Of My Life)   Rock N' Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life...   Something's Burning   Stop and Smell the Roses   Stop And Smell The Roses (1974)   Texas In My Rear View Mirror   Watchin' Scotty Grow   Watching Scotty Grow   Whoever Finds This I Love You   Whoever Finds This, I Love You   You Are   You're My Bestest Friend   You're My Bestest Friend (1982)   Your Side Of The Bed

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