Couldn't tell me nothing   Had to learn it on my own   On the restless side of sixteen   The Day that I left home   Screaming down that highway   With a passion to break any rules   I went crashing at the speed of a fool      She was serving all night coffee   at a San Antonio Cafe   She was headed nowhere   I was headed her way   With a trusting soul and a naive heart   there was nothing I could do   So I went crashing , at the speed of a fool      (Chorus)   You're either born for holding back   or bound for letting go   So I throw caution to the wind   Wherever it may blow   It's the only way I know   I go crashing at the speed of a fool      Got a hunger for that highway   I know will never end   Lord I can't help what I'm not   and won't change what I am   Til' the roll is called up yonder   To my own self I'll be true   and go crashing at the speed of a fool      (Repeat Chorus)      I go crashing at the speed of a fool