Back To Memphis

If I never saw you
 You'd still live in my dreams
 Calling out from stages
 And music magazines
 If I were a painter
 You'd be green and gold
 Carved out of matches
 But broken out of stone
 Taken from the fire of your fiddle
 Words of unspoken, blinding truth
 If I couldn't see it I was lost in my youth
 But I'm going back to Memphis after you
 If I could've seen you
 With blood on your bones
 Poison in your fingers
 But music in your soul
 You could've been my lover
 Taught me everything I know
 But now we are your children
 Your flowers in the snow
 But all you ever wanted was to see the heart of the city, oh
 And all you ever got was hand to mouth
 But I know you'll be walking for a long, long time
 'Cause you're going back to Memphis, heading South
 Brothers 'til the night came
 And whispered in the pines
 Tempting me with secrets
 To play a game with time
 Now I feel you in the walls
 And I know you're in the air
 And it's just like I can touch you
 You're living everywhere
 But all you ever wanted was to be in the heart of the city, oh
 And all you ever got was handed out
 But I know you'll be walking for a long, long time
 'Cause you're going back to Memphis, heading South
 Going back to Memphis, heading South.