wide open on the boulevard of broken dreams i learned everything i needed to know from john cougar, john deere, john 3:36 hey, hey everything i needed that's right i'm mark twain on the mississippi hemingway with a shot of whiskey i'm a tv dinner on a tray trying to figure out the wheel of fortune i'm a texaco star i'm a gibson guitar a teenage kid trying to go too far i'm a jukebox waiting in a neon bar for a quarter i'm a child of a back seat freedom baptized by rock and roll marlin monroe and the garden of eden never grow up, never grow old another rebel in the great wide open on the boulevard of broken dreams i learned everything i needed to know from john cougar, john deere, john 3:16 i spent a lot of years running from believering looking for another way to save my soul the longer i live, the more i see it there's only one way home i'm a child of a backseat freedom baptized by rock and roll marlin monroe and the garden of eden never grow up, never grow old another rebel in the great wide open on the boulevard of broken dreams i learned everything i needed to know from john cougar, john deere,