| Couldn’t tell me nothing
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| Had to learn it on my own
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| On the restless side of seventeen
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| The day that I left home
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| Screaming down that highway
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| With a passion to break any rules
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| I went crashing at the speed of a fool
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| She was serving all night coffee
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| At a San Antonio cafe
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| She was headed nowhere
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| I was going her way
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| With a trusting soul and a naive heart
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| There was nothing I could do
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| So I went crashing at the speed of a fool
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| You’re either born for holding back
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| Or bound for letting go
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| So I throw caution to the wind
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| Wherever it may blow
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| It’s the only way I know
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| I go crashing at the speed of a fool
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| Got a hunger for that highway
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| I know will never end
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| Lord I can’t help what I’m not
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| And I won’t change what I am
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| 'Til the roll is called up yonder
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| To my own self I’ll be true
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| And go crashing at the speed of a fool
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| Repeat Chorus
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| I go crashing at the speed of a fool |