Taylor Swift’s Tennessee became quite popular soon after its release. Read full lyrics below
Verse 1: Speech
- Lord, I’ve really been real stressed
- Down and out, losing ground
- Although 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 can go
- To let these ghosts out of my skull
- My grandma’s passed, my brother’s 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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Chorus
- Take me to another place
- Take me to another land
- Make me forget all that hurts me
- Let me understand your plan
Verse 2: Speech
- Lord it’s obvious we got a relationship
- Talking 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 Dyersburg into Ripley
- Where the ghost of childhood haunts me
- Walk 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 had to be (home)
- He guided me to Tennessee (home)
Chorus
- Take me to another place
- Take me to another land
- Make me forget all that hurts me
- Let me understand your plan
Interlude: Aerle Taree
- Eshe, she went down to Holly Springs
- Rasadon and Baba, they went down to Peachtree
- Headliner, I challenge you to a game of horseshoes, a game of horseshoes
Verse 3: Speech
- 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 playing ghetto games
- I ask you Lord why you enlightened me
- Without the enlightenment of all my folks
- He said cause 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
Chorus
- Take me to another place
- Take me to another land
- Make me forget all that hurts me
- Let me understand your plan
Outro: Aerle Taree
- Headliner, I won the game of horseshoes
- Now you owe me a watermelon
- Let’s go climb trees and skip over rocks
- Do like they do below the border
- Speech’s hair
- Don’t it look like the roots of the tree that the ancestors were hung from
- But that’s okay, get it cause he’s down to Earth