Overnight Sensation

Lookin' at the faces starin' back at me
 Stage lights are blindin', they're reminding me
 Of playin' on my bedroom floor
 Mama's back against the door
 Sayin', "Baby, won't you sing me one more song"
 Drivin' and my song comes on the radio
 It brings me back to days when I didn't know
 If anybody'd even show
 And was it worth the miles I drove?
 'Cause no one knows my name in Toccoa
 No one knows quite how this thing goes
 There's no right way to chase it
 After all the booze and tears and patience
 I'm an overnight sensation
 13 years in the makin'
 Don't wonder anymore if my dad's proud of me
 'Cause now he's standin' side of stage singin' my melodies
 I remember him askin' me
 "Why're you wastin' your degree
 For a couple part-time jobs and a dream?"
 No one knows quite how this thing goes
 There's no right way to chase it
 After all the booze and tears and patience
 I'm an overnight sensation
 13 years in the makin'
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 There's no map for this damn promised land
 No blueprint, there's no master plan
 And no way of knowin' if, or how, or when
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 Sometimes I miss the days when I was 17
 Wasn't worried about the money or singin' out of key
 But I set my course for the unknown
 Worked my fingers to the bone
 Hurt like hell goin' through it then
 Lookin' back, I'd do it all again
 No one knows quite how this thing goes
 There's no right way to chase it
 After all the booze and tears and patience
 I'm an overnight sensation
 I'm an overnight sensation
 13 years in the makin'