Too Far from Texas
 

 Written by S. Booker and S. Stewart

There's a plane, it's headed for London Twenty-four hours more and he'll be on it And I can't show my love, and I can't stop it Ooh, I can't stop it There's a house there, somebody's waiting Somebody else's arms will wrap around him And in that moment, what will he think then... When I can't touch him Maybe my love could fly over the ocean Maybe my heart should try to leave him alone All that I really know is that he's goin' Too far from Texas Too close to home In a room just outside of Houston That's where I spend my nights trying to get through to him He says he's comin' back in every letter... But he might never No, he might never Maybe my love could fly over the ocean Maybe my heart should try to leave him alone All that I really know is that he's goin' Too far from Texas Too close to home Does he know how long I've waited for this love to come? Does he know I'm holdin' on? And that won't change no matter where he's gone Maybe my love could fly over the ocean Maybe my heart should try to leave him alone All that I really know is that he's goin' Too far from Texas Too close to home Maybe my love could fly over the ocean Maybe my heart should try to leave him alone All that I really know is that he's goin' Too far from Texas Too close to home Couldn't I, couldn't I wait? Couldn't he, couldn't he stay one more day? Couldn't I, couldn't I wait? Couldn't he, couldn't he stay one more day?

 


WEBMISTRESS speculates:

This song wasn't written by Stevie, but co-written by her close friend Sandy Stewart (a woman who has known Stevie for a long time, worked with her in the past, and who views Stevie as a kind of mentor. She wrote Seven Wonders with her, for instance). At any rate, I think it's terrific, and that's not just because I used to live in a room outside of Houston, too! (Lindsey can have his Empire State all to himself.) As for personal meaning? Well, farbeit from me to suggest that a song about someone leaving a woman to return to a life with a wife and kids might reflect a certain situation in Stevie's life!

 

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