Lainey Wilson Drops New Single ‘Somwhere Over Laredo’
Lainey Wilson, the country music favorite, returns with a new single about the nowhere town of Laredo, Texas.
Lainey Wilson sings a love ode to the border town of Laredo. The song opens with the narrator on a red-eye flight from Houston to Southern California, looking out a window seat and sipping Tito’s vodka.
The relationship at the heart of the song is portrayed as intense but ill-fated. The phrase “lone star-crossed lovers” is a clever twist on Shakespeare’s “star-crossed lovers,” tying the romance to Texas (the Lone Star State) while emphasizing its doomed nature.
The lovers are described as “wrong for each other” and “born to get gone from the get-go,” suggesting an inherent incompatibility or a shared restlessness that prevents them from staying together.
At its core, Somewhere Over Laredo is about the ache of what’s left behind when pursuing a bigger life. It captures the universal experience of reflecting on a past love during moments of solitude, amplified by the physical and emotional distance of travel.
In 2025, Lainey Wilson won Entertainer of the Year, Album of the Year, Female Artist of the Year, and Artist-Songwriter of the Year at the Academy of Country Music Awards.
The country music singer is not stopping by any means and continies to generate buzz in the country music world.
See the lyrics of Somwhere Over Laredo below:
Caught me a red eye flight out of Houston
Found me a window seat with a view
Headed out west for South California
One Tito’s in, I’m thinking 'bout you
In that little border town
Where the desert glows gold when the sun goes down
My head’s thirty thousand feet in the clouds
Knowing twenty minutes from now, I’ll be
Somewhere over Laredo
Dreaming about those rodeo nights
Laid there on the banks of the Rio
New silver buckle on your jeans next to mine
Couple wrong for each other, lone star-crossed lovers
Born to get gone from the get-go
But you’re on my mind every time I’m chasing this neon rainbow
Somewhere over Laredo
I’m flying high on a 737
Yeah, boy, I’m eye level with these stars
You think I’d be five miles closer to heaven
But I reckon heaven’s down there where you are
Do you stop and stare at the Texas sky
Up in the air, and wonder if I’m
Somewhere over Laredo?
Dreaming about those rodeo nights
Laid there on the banks of the Rio
New silver buckle on your jeans next to mine
Couple wrong for each other, lone star-crossed lovers
Born to get gone from the get-go
But you’re on my mind every time I’m chasing this neon rainbow
Somewhere over Laredo
Where the blackbirds fly
Once in a lullaby
For a second, I’m still yours
And you’re still mine
Somewhere over Laredo
Dreaming about those rodeo nights
Laid there on the banks of the Rio
New silver buckle on your jeans next to mine
Couple wrong for each other, lone star-crossed lovers
Born to get gone from the get-go
But you’re on my mind every time I’m chasing this neon rainbow
Somewhere over Laredo
Somewhere over Laredo
Somewhere over Laredo