Tennessee

Tennessee, Tennessee
 Tennessee, Tennessee
 Tennessee, Tennessee
 Tennessee, Tennessee
 Lord, I've really been real stressed
 Down and out, losing ground
 Although I am black and proud
 Problems got me pessimistic
 Brothers and sisters keep messin' up
 Why does it have to be so damn tough?
 I don't know where I can go
 To let these ghosts out of my skull
 My grandma's passed, my brother's gone
 I never at once felt so alone
 I know you're supposed to be my steering wheel
 Not just my spare tire (home)
 But Lord, I ask you (home)
 To be my guiding force and truth (home)
 For some strange reason it had to be (home)
 He guided me to Tennessee (home)
 Take me to another place
 Take me to another land
 Make me forget all that hurts me
 Let me understand your plan
 Take me to another place
 Take me to another land
 Make me forget all that hurts me
 Let me understand your plan (yeah)
 Lord, it's obvious we got a relationship
 Talking to each other every night and day
 Although you're superior over me
 We talk to each other in a friendship way
 Then outta nowhere you tell me to break
 Outta the country and into more country
 Past Dyersburg into Ripley
 Where the ghost of childhood haunts me
 Walk the roads my forefathers walked
 Climbed the trees my forefathers hung from
 Ask those trees for all their wisdom
 They tell me my ears are so young (home)
 Go back to from whence you came (home)
 My family tree, my family name (home)
 For some strange reason it had to be (home)
 He guided me to Tennessee (home)
 Take me to another place
 Take me to another land
 Make me forget all that hurts me
 Let me understand your plan
 Take me to another place
 Take me to another land
 Make me forget all that hurts me
 Let me understand your plan
 Eshe, she went down to Holly Springs
 Rasadon and Baba, they went down to Peachtree
 Headliner, I challenge you to a game of horseshoes, a game of horseshoes
 Now I see the importance of history
 Why my people be in the mess that they be
 Many journeys to freedom made in vain
 By brothers on the corner playing ghetto games
 I ask you Lord why you enlightened me
 Without the enlightenment of all my folks
 He said 'cause I set myself on a quest for truth
 And he was there to quench my thirst
 But I am still thirsty
 The Lord allowed me to drink some more
 He said what I am searching for are
 The answers to all which are in front of me
 The ultimate truth started to get blurry
 For some strange reason it had to be
 It was all a dream about Tennessee
 Take me to another place
 Take me to another land
 Make me forget all that hurts me
 Let me understand your plan
 Take me to another place
 Take me to another land
 Make me forget all that hurts me
 Let me understand your plan
 Oh, won't you let me, won't you help me
 Won't you help me understand your plan
 Take me home, take me home, home, take me to another place
 Take me home, home, you know I need to go home
 Oh, yeah
 Headliner, I won the game of horseshoes
 Now you owe me a watermelon
 Let's go climb trees and skip over rocks
 Do like they do below the border
 Speech's hair
 Don't it look like the roots of the tree that the ancestors were hung from
 But that's okay, get it 'cause he's down to Earth
 Tennessee (Tennessee)
 Tennessee, yeah
 Tennessee
 (Tennessee)