TEXAS
Chris Rea - 1983


Catch a sight of long lost summers 
Catch a dream inside your hands 
Take me where that lady comes from 
Take me to that far off distant land 
Rain comes pouring past my window 
Turns my sky from blue to grey 
I ain't never been to Texas 
But I sure gonna meet that lady 
One fine day 

When Texas smiles around my bedroom 
Who could ever turn her down 
Tears of joy roll down my pillow 
While cold north winds are blowing all around me 
But I don't care, my dream is westbound 
Far across that sky so grey 

I ain't never been to Texas 
But I sure gonna meet that lady 
One fine day 

She's my little Texas 
My little Texas 

Texas (1989) 

Warm winds blowing 
Heating blue sky 
And a road that goes forever 

Been thinking about it lately 
Been watching some TV 
Been looking all around me 
At what has come to be 
Been talking to my neighbour 
And he agrees with me 
It's all gone crazy 

Well my wife returns from taking 
My little girl to school 
She's got beads of perspiration 
As she tries to keep her cool 
She says That mess it don't get no better 
There's gonna come a day 
Someone's gonna get killed out there 
And I turn to her and say Texas 
She says What? 
I said Texas 
She says what? 
They've got big long road out there 

Warm winds blowing 
Heating blue sky 
And a road that goes forever 
I'm going to Texas 

We got to get out of here 
We got to get out of here 

Well I got a little brother 
Several meters high 
Yea his built just like a quarterback 
And he swears he'll testify 
he says he's been to Texas 
And that's the only place to be 
Big stakes, big girls, no trouble there 
That's the place for me 

I'm going to Texas 
I'm going to Texas 
Watch me walking 
Watch me walking