[Verse One: Speech]

Lord I've really been real stressed

Down and out, losin ground
Although I am black and proud
Problems got me pessimistic

Brothers and sisters keep messin up
Why does it have to be so dman tuff?
I don't know where I can go

To let these ghosts out of my skull
My grandmas past, my brothers gone
I never at once felt so alone

I know you're supposed to be my steering wheel
Not just my spare tire (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)


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Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all that hurts me

Let me understand your plan

[Verse Two]


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
Wlak the roads my forefathers walked
Climbed 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 ahd to be (home)
He guided me to Tennessee (home)


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[Verse Three]


Now I see the importance of history
Why people be in the mess that they be
Many journeys to freedom made in vain

By brothers on the corner playin ghetto games
I ask you lord why you enlightened me
Without the enlightment of all my folks

He said cuz 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 searchin 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


[Chorus]