Jewel - Stephenville, TX lyrics

Housewives told to recapture their youth
By wearing floral print and suede
Fixing their hairdos with PC
Chemical-free hairspray
Martha Stewart taught them to make on TV
I was raised a farmgirl
I'm too far from home, all alone on the road
Trying to figure out who I am now
That the stardust has turned to sand
And the sand has turned to
Stone on the starmaking machine

I'm 31 years old that ain't the end
But it sure ain't where I began

And my daddy
He wrote songs and he broke colts
And went back to school to get a degree
Now he teaches music to kids
He taught music to me
And this Alaskan girl has been
Living in Stephenville, Texas, that is
Yes, you guessed it
I moved here because I fell
In love with a man
I moved his ex-old lady's things
Out of the closet
The same closet I moved my things back in
No, it did not make me feel that great
As if to demonstrate everything's temporary
If you give it enough time

I'm thirty-one years old that ain't the end
But it sure ain't where I began

But hey I'm just a kid
I've got nothing to lose
I'm a singer of songs
I'm a player for crowds
Hey Mom, look, I'm an entertainer
I'm a modern day troubadour
Trying to find justice with six strings
Trying to make the world make sense out of me
Trying to be loved completely
Trying to love honestly
Trying to find a decent high noon cup of tea
In another hotel
I'm trying to listen to the leaves speak
Trying to steal secrets from
Fishes in the creek
Trying to figure out who I am
A pretty mediocre cook
An even worse mathematician
Maybe a mother one day what will it be?

I'm trying to figure out who I am
But there's no hand to hold
No Doctor Martin Luther King
There's just sycophants
And the mindlessness on TV
We all read magazines for the
Latest ways to behave
So hey why not follow me
The blond bombshell deity?
I'll sell you neat ideas without big words
And a little bit of cleavage to
Help wash it all down
You know, everybody thought Godard
Was a clown, man
That ain't gonna be me

I'm thirty-one years old that ain't the end
But it sure ain't where I began

Guess that just makes it Stephenville, Texas