Lyrics Tennessee

Won't you let me
Won't you help me
Won't you help me understand

Take me home
Take me home
Take me home (Tennessee)
Take me home (Tennessee)

Lord I've really been real stressed
Down and out, losin' ground
Althought 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 could go
To let these ghosts out of my skull
My grandma passed, my brothers gone
I never once felt so alone
I know you're supposed to be my steering wheel
Not just my spare tyre (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

Lord it's obvious we got a relationship
Talkin' 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 Dyesburg into Ripley
Where the ghost of childhood haunts me
Walk the roads my forefathers walked
Climb 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

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 playin' ghetto rhymes
I ask you Lord why you enlightened me
Without the enlightenment of all my folks
He said coz 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

Won't you let me
Won't you help me
Won't you help me understand
Please
Take me home
Take me home
Please lead me to a better place
Take me home
Ohh
I know I need to go home
Yeah