Memphis Lives In Me

There's a town that I call home
 Where all the streets are paved with soul
 Down on Beale, there's a honky-tonk bar
 Hear the wail of a blues guitar
 Have a beer, drop a dime in a blind man's jar
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 The blues sing softly in the air
 Like a Sunday morning prayer
 Just one more drink and you'll see God everywhere
 Like a sad old melody
 Tears you up but sets you free
 That's how Memphis lives in me
 There comes a time when muddy waters run rough
 There comes a point when a man has had enough
 Like a friend who always stands by me, yeah
 Memphis knows me, Memphis shows me
 How this life just has to be
 I couldn't even try
 To run away and say goodbye
 Here I was born and here is where I'll die
 Just a man from Tennessee
 Can't be what I can't be
 All I know is Memphis lives in me
 There comes a time when muddy waters run rough
 There comes a point when a man has had enough
 Like a friend who always stands by me, yeah
 Memphis knows me, Memphis shows me
 How this life just has to be
 I couldn't even try
 To run away and say goodbye
 Here I was born and here is where I'll die
 Just a man from Tennessee
 Can't be what I can't be
 All I know is Memphis lives
 All I know is Memphis gives
 All I know is Memphis lives in me