Couldn't tell me nothing

Had to learn it on my own

On the restless side of seventeen

The Day that I left home

Screaming down that highway

With a passion to break any rules

I went crashing at the speed of a fool





She was serving all night coffee

at a San Antonio Cafe

She was headed nowhere

I was headed her way

With a trusting soul and a naive heart

there was nothing I could do

So I went crashing , at the speed of a fool





(Chorus)

You're either born for holding back

or bound for letting go

So I throw caution to the wind

Wherever it may blow

It's the only way I know

I go crashing at the speed of a fool





Got a hunger for that highway

I know will never end

Lord I can't help what I'm not

and won't change what I am

Til' the roll is called up yonder

To my own self I'll be true

and go crashing at the speed of a fool





(Repeat Chorus)

(Tag)

I go crashing at the speed of a fool