Overnight Sensation

Looking at the faces staring back at me
Stage lights are blinding, they're reminding me
Of playing on my bedroom floor
Mama's back against the door
Saying, "Baby, won't you sing me one more song"

Driving 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 making

Don't wonder anymore if my dad's proud of me
'Cause now he's standing side of stage singing my melodies
I remember him asking me
"Why're you wasting 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 making

There's no map for this damn promised land
No blueprint, there's no master plan
And no way of knowing if, or how, or when

Sometimes I miss the days when I was seventeen
Wasn't worried about the money or singing out of key
But I set my course for the unknown
Worked my fingers to the bone
Hurt like hell going through it then
Looking 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 making