Holed up in Mason City, waiting for the roads to clear Second day of the blizzard and winter isn't even here I'm heading back on I-35, at this point I just wanna make it home alive Holed up in Mason city, the weather isn't pretty tonight Holed up in Mason City, waiting for my luck to change Thought I'd be home already but my plans are being rearranged First day snow flew down from the sky Now it's crossing the fields and it's drifting high (Sun) lies upon the highway, car is blowing sideways and i Believe I'll seek some shelter and (faces helter-skelter and white) I moved over to the (rumbles) dripping, driving with my flashers on Every tenth of a mile slipping ever closer and gone Iceblue highway, blue sky byway Iceblue highway, blowing sideways At the Big Bopper Diner, there's a bunch of stranded refugees And nobody's talking, or looking very eager to please In a booth i saw Buddy Holly's ghost Writing to the girl he loved the most, Holed up in Mason city, the future isn't ready tonight. Holing up in Mason City, the future is't ready tonight.