Tennessee Songtext
von Arrested Development

To Tennessee
One, two, here we go
Ooh
Won′t you let me
Won't you help me
Won′t you help me understand your plan

Lord, I've really been real stressed
Down and out, losing guts
Although I am black and proud
Problems got me pessimistic
Brothers and sisters keep messing 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 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

So Lord, I ask you


To be my guiding force of truth
For some strange reason it had to be
He guided me to Tennessee

Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all the hurt things
Let me understand your plan
Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all the hurt things
Let me understand your plan

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 out of nowhere, you tell me to pray
Out of the country and into more countries
Past iceberg into rivers
Where the ghost of childhood haunts me
Walk the road my forefathers walked
Climb the trees my forefathers hung from


Ask those trees for all their wisdom
They tell me my ears are so dumb
Go back to whence you came
My family tree, my family name
For some strange reason it had to be
He guided me to Tennessee

Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all the hurt things
Let me understand your plan
Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all the hurt things
Let me understand your plan

Is she? She went down to Holly Springs
Raza Don and Baba, they went down to Peachtree
Headliner, I challenge you to a game of horseshoes
A game of horseshoes, horseshoes
I stay right

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 enlighten me
Without the enlightenment of all my folks
You said 'cause I set myself on a quest for truth
And you were there to quench my thirst
But I am still thirsty

Lord, allow 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 starting 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 the hurt things
Let me understand your plan
Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all the hurt things
Let me understand your plan

Oh, won′t you let me
Won't you help me
Won′t you help me understand your plan

Take me home
Take me home, home
Take me to another place
Take me home
Whoa
Now I need to go home
Yeah
Headliner, I won the game of horseshoes
Now you owe me a watermelon
To Tennessee