Back To Memphis Lyrics

Back To Memphis lyrics

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. ?