Stephenville, TX

Stephenville, TX

Housewives trying to recapture their youth
By wearing floral print and suede
Fixing their hairdos with PC,
chemical-free hairspray
Martha Stewart taught them to make on TV

I was raised a farmgirl
I'm too far from home,
all alone on the road
Trying to figure out who I am
now the the stardust has turned to sand
And the sand has turned to stone
on the starmaking machine

I'm 25 years old
That ain't the end
but it sure ain't where I began

And my daddy,
he wrote songs and he broke colts
And he went back to school
to get a degree
Now he teachs music to kids,
he taught music to me

And this Alaskan girl
was living in Stephenville, Texas
Yes, you guessed it,
I moved here because
I fell in love with a man
And I moved his ex-old lady's things
out of the closet
The same closet
I had to move my things back in

It didn't make me feel that great,
as if to demonstrate
Everything's temporary
given enough time
But hey, I've got nothing to lose
I'm a singer for crowds,
I'm a writer of songs
Hey Mom, look,
I'm an entertainer
I'm a modern day troubadour
trying to find justice with six strings
Trying to make the world
make sense out of me

Trying to be loved completely,
trying to love honestly
Trying to find a decent high noon cup of tea
In another shitty hotel
I'm trying to listen to the leaves speak
Trying to steal secrets
from fishes in the creek
Trying to figure out who I am
A singer, a pretty bad cook, maybe a good mom
What will it be?

And I'm 25 years old
That ain't the end but
it sure ain't where I began

I'm trying to figure out who I am
But there's no hand to hold,
no Doctor Martin Luther King
There's just syncophants
And the mindlessness on TV
or in the magazines
On the latest ways to behave
So why not follow me,
the blond bombshell deity?

I'll sell you neat ideas without big words
And a little bit of cleavage
to help wash it all down
Hey, everybody thought Godard was a clown
And that ain't gonna be me

And I'm 25 years old
That ain't the end
but it sure ain't where I began
Guess that just means I'm in Texas

Jewel