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

Thirteen 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

Thirteen years in the makin'

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

Sometimes I miss the days when I was seventeen

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

Thirteen years in the makin'