Gone to Mexico - Delbert McClinton, Self-Made Men

Got to get away from the telephone

I don’t want to hear it ring anymore

Mi vida loca is out of hand

I’m off to be the solitary man

Take my guitar and a change of clothes

Leave the rest by the side of the road

Break these chains and fly away

To live and love another day

I’ll take my aching heart to a place I know

And soak it in the sun 'til it don’t hurt anymore

A secret place, a little town I know

Tell 'em I’ve gone to Mexico

There are a lot of things that you just can’t do

But you’ve got to have a dream or two

And when the sideshow gets you down

Sometimes it’s good just to get out of town

I’ll take my aching heart to a place I know

And soak it in the sun 'til it don’t hurt anymore

A secret place, a little town I know

Tell 'em I’ve gone to Mexico