I'm a 45 spinning on an old
Victrola, I'm a two strike
swinger, I'm a Pepsi Cola
I'm a blue jean quarter-
back saying "I love you" to
the prom queen in a Chevy
I'm John Wayne
Superman, California
I'm a Kris Kristofferson
Sunday morning
I'm a mom and daddy
Singing along
to Don McLean
at the levee
And I'm a child of
a backseat freedom
baptized by rock and roll
Marilyn Monroe
and the Garden of Eden
never grow up
And never grow old
just a another rebel
in the great wide open
On the boulevard
of broken dreams
and I learned everything
I needed to know from
John Cougar, John Deere
John 3:16
Hey, hey
Everything I needed
That's right
I'm Mark Twain
on the Mississippi
I'm Hemingway
with a shot of whiskey
I'm a TV dinner
on a tray tryna figure out
the Wheel of Fortune
I'm a Texaco star
I'm a Gibson guitar
still a teenage kid
tryna go too far
I'm a jukebox
waiting in a neon bar
For a quarter
And I'm a child of
a backseat freedom
baptized by rock and roll
Marilyn Monroe
and the Garden of Eden
never grow up
And never grow old
just a another rebel
in the great wide open
On the boulevard
of broken dreams
and I learned everything
I needed to know from
John Cougar, John Deere
John 3:16
I've spent a lot of years
running from believing
looking for another way
to save my soul
the longer I live
the more I see it
There's only
one way home
And I'm a child of
a backseat freedom
baptized by rock and roll
Marilyn Monroe
and the Garden of Eden
never grow up
And never grow old no
another rebel
in the great wide open
On the boulevard
of broken dreams
and I learned everything
I needed to know from
John Cougar, John Deere
John 3:16
And I'm a child of
a backseat freedom
baptized by rock and roll
Marilyn Monroe
and the Garden of Eden
never grow up
And never grow old
just a another rebel
in the great wide open
On the boulevard
of broken dreams
and I learned everything
I needed to know from
John Cougar, John Deere
John 3:16
Everything I needed