Nightmare

I grew up listenin' to guys like

Buddy Holly and Towns Van Zandt

Stevie Ray Vaughan was another guy

Who really had a lot to do with me playin' guitar

And I think this is the best song I've ever written

I'm proud to play it for y'all

Last night I had me a nightmare

Dreamed that Texas was burnin' down, burnin' down

And all them people I'd grown up to love leavin' town

So I cried oh-oh, Moses, bring a flood from the Red, Red Sea

Bring back Towns Van Zandt and Stevie Ray back to me

'Cause I can play their songs, but it ain't the way they do

Ain't the way they do

I had a nightmare

Stevie Ray was ridin' on the wind

Buddy Holly, well he was too

When their star comes crashin' to the ground

Not a thing all the king's horses and all the king's men could do

Me, I just got my old barstool

I know it's burnin' me down, it's burnin' me down

Just like a brushfire that burns all through the night

One of these days I'm gonna, one of these days I'm gonna burn on out

So I cried oh-oh, Moses, bring a flood from the Red, Red Sea

Bring back Towns Van Zandt and Stevie Ray back to me

'Cause I can play their songs, but it ain't the way they do

Ain't the way

I had a nightmare, a nightmare, a nightmare

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah