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wish i was in nashville. memphis tenessee
home of country music that means so much to me
strumming my guitar sing a country song
memphis tenessee the place where i belong.

singing in the bars make my self a name
become a country star in the hall of fame
wear a stetson hat and some cowboy boots
sing a country song thats in my country roots

become a country star sing the oprey hall
the biggest country stage the biggest of them all
nashville tenessee  is where i long to be
place of country music home sweet home to me.

settle down for good in the place where i belong
playing my guitar sing a country song
home of country music home sweet home to me
the land of country music is where i long to be.

singing in the bars make my self a name
become a country star in the hall of fame
wear a stetson hat and some cowboy boots
sing a country song thats in my country roots

wish i was in nashville. memphis tenessee
home of country music that means so much to me
strumming my guitar sing a country song
memphis tenessee the place where i belong.
LylexRose  Sep 2018
Legionary
LylexRose Sep 2018
The long time coming now awaits...
Let's ride fast, let's make haste
Got the hoodie pulled up cos I wear no face...
Now let the ladies sing cos I need to concentrate...

This year I've come so far, walking over broken glass has left me scarred, I've understood what it's like to cry, not saying my life was hard, I'm saying it's different to what to you'd expect, but when I out here on the streets you know I don't beg for respect, made my music with feeling of everything building up going though my head, lost songs through mistakes I've made, and I know when you think at the end of the day when life seems that it's all to much just know to look too the light and focus on the music instead, cos I come from a place we're grey skies dominate the streets, when these rain drops fall on your face waiting for a deal to go down, you know it feels so empty just walking around my hometown, just know I've been called sheltered and know it's the ******* they talk when they don't understand the feelings of feeling like you're drowning....

I know it's going down, good lord...
Riding my pace through town...
Attracting the honeys when I sing it loud...
It's time I unwound, feeling kinda aroused, hope it don't affect the sound of my crowd...

Now the streets lights seem to change colour when you see them through my faded eyes, my face shaded out waiting for the man to sell the green so I can get high, let the smoke clear out just so I can see the horizon, it's funny some people don't get it, like they don't understand it, like to dress like a baller but barely making a grand, but just know this music pushed through the space in my mind, destroyed my depression, to my fans I show no oppression, if the music's a little serious then my life is a comedy session, the people I grew with have gone now, have moved along, made they're own path, looking back at me I guess they don't understand that, I been through a dark place, face to face, living with my real family but still feels like I'm being chased, dug myself into grave that I just can't climb out of, they say that fortune favours the brave and I don't need no ladder, don't need to pray, because only God knows I can make it myself, you know I used to never have a say, that never did things my way but now I got a chance to up and leave or change the game if I stay....

 I know it's going down, good lord...
Riding my pace through town...
Attracting the honeys when I sing it loud...
It's time I unwound, feeling kinda aroused, hope it don't affect the sound of my crowd...

Let's just listen to the people speak, but ain't backing me up, they say my future looks bleak, so walk with me and we could be something great you see, I've been told at the root of all evil is something illegal but if you say that then you've never seen **** I've had to deal with, deal it, steal it, this is where the war is, it's why I rap for this ****, so everyone hear can my stories, you don't seem to believe this, I'll whisper it in your ear "this is what work is" and now you all this is how I found my purpose, now let ears do the work, feel no more hurt, used getting beaten, hiding blood stains on my shirt, but anybody wanna know when I take the 10th to the back, knock this ***** with a slap, give him a quick text, show off my face acrawl into his room, I'd **** anyone; for this music I have to protect, waking up covered in blood, smiling down at you and Ill whisper in your ear, you're next!...

 I know it's going down, good lord...
Riding my pace through town...
Attracting the honeys when I sing it loud...
It's time I unwound, feeling kinda aroused, hope it don't affect the sound of my crowd...

Showing these MC'S whose boss, all these other MC'S are lost, all these other MC'S have had enough, all these other MC'S get turned to dust and we all feel the familiar feeling of disgust, all these little people I can here you shout, when I look at my life all I see is devout, to the help I've had, they say the thing that it isn't chosen is family, so would it be a funny thing I disagree, smoking a spliff whilst clutching to the smell of the voice of tenessee whiskey, I'm leaving in 5 but I've been doing this since I was 14, acting like I make bank but struggling behind the curtins, it's a sad thing to see, that I'm just a kid with mummy issues and is a lyrical genius, wanna stand in my shoes, fine but I'm just a boy with a dream whose come so far it's seems like he's losing his passion and forgetting his dreams, it's a shame to see it's ******* I've lost nothing, but I'm only still discovering and it's a shame to see that everybody who was about when this boy has amounted to nothing  going full bearded better know I'm never showing stubble, I'm in outer space just ask Hubble, soaring through stars living out of the bubble, gold wearing and smells like coffee, melting my relationships like toffee and with my feet at the cliffside I just wished it didn't end awfully...

 I know it's going down, good lord...
Riding my pace through town...
Attracting the honeys when I sing it loud...
It's time I unwound, feeling kinda aroused, hope it don't affect the sound of my crowd...
When you think you're lost, keep your eyes to the sky and keep marching on...
hello  Nov 2015
Tenessee
hello Nov 2015
You experience death for the first time even though she has a breathing tube
You see your sister cry and you remember why you took this trip and you remember she has feelings and its not just you
You eat and drink and talk to distract the fact that someone is passing by and the relationship you had-no matter how short- was not insignificant
It's hard to grasp that this will happen throughout life and its not just something that happens in the movies.
You finally understand that life is real and its not some dream and you wonder how it'll hurt when you relive a death again


You wish people lived forever.
Corkey Hawley May 2010
It's a dim & drizzly Memorial Monday
Hell, it could be Sunday or any other day these daze
The BBQ pickin party's cancelled
due 2 more rain and things finacial
We did not escape the flooding after all
the AC was out on the hottest day I recall
the heat & humidity is so oppressive
makes one's instincts blur & become panic obsessive
On a day set aside for all to remember
Those who gave all & did not surrender
Is marked with a lack of labor & shopping mall sales
No football, no banking, no courts & no snail mail
So I'll have another chunk of dat brownie
and wash in down with some good ol' Tenessee JD
Take another puff & drive another nail in my coffin
Until my head stops aching & can stop coughing
What will dis day bring?
Maybe I'll just sit alone with my guitar & sing
Play me some blues cause the mortgage is due
the roof is still leaking, two cats have nine kittens & I'm blue
I'm so broke I can't pay attention
to all of the things that I owe I've lost my retention
YA, I got dem steadily depressin'
Low down mind missin'
Everything is way past due
I got dem Memorial Blues

Append Just had 2 write dis 2 get my daze started, U all have happy :) Memorial Day, Doc
gonna take a train to memphis tenessee
to the place i love that was home to me
back to all my folks friends and family
to the place i love that is calling me

see again my memories locked in side my mind
stop my drifting ways leave it all behind
home again once more where i used to be
to my home sweet home in memphis tennesee

settle down for good home again once more
to the place i love where i was before
back to all my folks friends and family
the place where i was raised in memphis tenesee

gonna take a train to memphis tenessee
to the place i love that was home to me
back to all my folks friends and family
to the place i love that is calling me
heading home to memphis on the midnight train
back home to my roots start over once again
place i was raised that meant so much to me
home again once more to memphis tenessee

had enough of heartaches sorrow and the pain
heading home to memphis start over once again
back to all my friends and my family
be happy once again like i used to be

had enough of drifting till the sun goes down
each and every place each and every town
find someone to love raise a family
back home to my roots in memphis tenessee
gonna board a train back home to tenesee
the place where i was born i hear it calling me
to my home sweet home is where i long to be
back to all my folks in memphis tenessee

ive done with the roaming every here and there
done with all the travellin ive been everywhere
never ever found what i was looking for
time to setlle down home again once more

to the place i love that is home to me
the place where i was raised with my family
never ever found what i was looking for
so im heading home to tenessee once more

gonna board a train back home to tenesee
the place where i was born i hear it calling me
to my home sweet home is where i long to be
back to all my folks in memphis tenessee
as i sit beneath the stars here tenessee
with old blue my dog my guitar and me
with the moon above lighting up the night
in the night so calm that makes the world feel right.

singing country songs passing time away
bringing peace of mind as i begin to play
blue there by my side listening to me
with his big blue eyes happy and so free

i would play all night till the early morn
pack up my guitar as i begin yawn
then we head off home old blue by my side
into a nice warm bed blue and i would slide.
















then return once more beneath the moonlit night.


old blue my my side listening to me
with his big blue eyes in the night so free
in a world of peace like the world should be
with my best friend blue my guitar and me
sat down on the porch my old dog and me
underneath the moon in memphis teneesee
playing my guitar. singing songs i wrote for you
that meant so much to me when our love was new

we would sit for hours beneath the stars so bright
singing songs to you we passed away the night
now im all alone you found someone new
i still sing the songs that i wrote for you

when i close my eyes i see you standing there
and the moonlit nights that we used to share
singing songs to you  beneath the stars above
when we were together very much in love

times i will remember how used to be
nights we spent together on a moonlit teneesse
you and i together when out love was new
singing all the songs that i wrote for you
i was just a country boy in memphis tenessee
where i was born and raised home sweet home to me
working  night and day in a country bar
singing country songs playing my guitar

try to earn a dollar so that i could pay
for an hotel room somewhere i could stay
didnt have much money just a song or two
me and guitar that help to get me through

singing to the folk with a country song
try to earn a dollar try get along
working day and night my guitar and me
in the place where i was raised in memphis tennesee

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