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 have seen you
With blood on your bones
Poison in your fingers
But music in your soul
? You could have 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
So I know you'll be walking for a long, long time
Cause you're going back to Memphis - heading South.
? Brothers till 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
So I know we'll be walking for a long, long time
Cause we're going back to Memphis - heading South
Going back to Memphis - heading South.?
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 have seen you
With blood on your bones
Poison in your fingers
But music in your soul
? You could have 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
So I know you'll be walking for a long, long time
Cause you're going back to Memphis - heading South.
? Brothers till 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
So I know we'll be walking for a long, long time
Cause we're going back to Memphis - heading South
Going back to Memphis - heading South.?
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Oren Young, Fred K. Young, Gregory Glen Martin, Anthony Tyler Kenney, Mark S. Orr, Johnnie Clyde Johnson
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Other Album Tracks
- Back to Memphis
- Tears of Rage
- To Kingdom Come
- Long Black Veil
- Chest Fever
- The Weight
- I Shall Be Released
- Up On Cripple Creek
- Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
- Rag Mama Rag
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Altri album
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- When I Paint My Masterpiece / Thinkin’ Out Loud / Life Is A Carnival
- Thinkin’ Out Loud / Life Is A Carnival
- Up On Cripple Creek (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, November 2, 1969)
- Stage Fright (2020 Remix)
- Stage Fright (Deluxe Edition / 2020 Remix)
- The Weight/Time To Kill/Sleeping/The Shape I'm In
- Toronto FM 1993 (live)
- The Band (Deluxe Edition / 2019 Remix)
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