If I never saw you

You'd still live in my dreams

Calling out from stages

And music magazines

? if I were a painter

You'd be green and gold

Carved out of matches

But broken out of stone

? taken from the fire of your fiddle

Words of unspokenblinding truth

If I couldn't see itI was lost in my youth

But I'm going back to memphis - after you.

? if I could have seen you

With blood on your bones

Poison in your fingers

But music in your soul

? you could have been my lover

Taught me everything I know

But now we are your children

Your flowers in the snow

? but all you ever wanted was to see the heart of the cityoh

And all you ever got was hand to mouth

So I know you'll be walking for a longlong time

Cause you're going back to memphis - heading south.

? brothers till the night came

And whispered in the pines

Tempting me with secrets

To play a game with time

? now I feel you in the walls

And I know you're in the air

And it's just like I can touch you

You're living everywhere

? but all you ever wanted was to be in the heart of the cityoh

And all you ever got was handed out

So I know we'll be walking for a longlong time

Cause we're going back to memphis - heading south

Going back to memphis - heading south. ?