Fair To Midland - Dwight Yoakam

Fare to Midland is all that I need

If I had fair to Midland

I’d take the first seat

On a fast train, bus, or plane

Which ever proved the quickest

Way for me.

I left her in Midland

Near one last promise

I couldn’t keep

To chase a future paved with fools

Small county roads

Don’t ever reach

But for every cloudless mile

The sun has shone

There’s been a hundred

Nights alone, at least

The shame is how it took so long

To figure out, fare to Midland

Don’t come cheap.

My eyes keep lonely thoughts

Reminding me With every dusty truck that I see

I’m only closer to How far away can be And all the time that’s left

Is an eternity.

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To make myself west Texas bound

The fare to Midland is all I need.

Fare to Midland is all that I need

If I had fare to Midland

I’d take the first seat…