A blacked-out sports car, racin’ through a red, Screechin’ with a guilty cry, fleein’ from a fed,  Cacklin’ that his hands were clean, as he left the town ablaze,

I survived the embers, but it burns me to remember. . . the liar, taking my front seat, with a gun to my head,                                

With blue eyes like that old James Dean - he’ll haunt me till I’m good and dead.   

How he haunts me -  lookin’ like James Dean, His face on every screen, I plead: James Dean, I’ve lost him once before, I’ll shake him once more. But like most sleepless nights, forgetting him will sting! Can’t escape the haunting of James Dean.  

He’s still out there drinkin’, the idea he’s “not like them.” Circlin’with the vultures, above all other men. Years flew by, and I cried and cried. I prayed he would disappear. Then he sent a letter, calling me his dear  — he wrote      

“Don’t you wish we could go back in time instead? Erase our misfortune, ride the tires until they shred?” 

But I saw the kerosine glisten, and his hand lightin’ the match! So I’ll sign “return to sender,” smudge a mark with ash to haunt his heart.              

How he taunts me with a postcard of James Dean. That face from the silver screen, he’ll see, James Dean - I faced him once before,  I’ll forget him once more. But like most sleepless nights, forgiving him will sting! Can I escape the haunting of James Dean? 

Try, try to run, try to frame me, toss the blame. Run, trip the wire, as they capture your demise, with some nice sweet-ass postcards and some memories of your lies. That James Hauntin’ Dean is coming for you next,

He’s coming for you…  

My last fated crossing, in a gallery on Main. Pleasantly surprised by a painting of James Dean. I found myself returning his sly smile, feeling smug. Yes that James Dean, leather-wearing, devil’s son of a gun!

He once haunted, looking like James Dean. Hauntin’ all my dreams, I’m free! James Dean, I sent him out the door, won’t haunt me anymore. And without sleepless nights, forgetting him won’t sting! I escaped the haunting of James Dean, I escaped the haunting of James Dean.