Tennessee

Well, there’s a silence when you’re looking at me
And I wish I could go back to sleep
But in this moment you won’t look beyond
The brown behind the black
Wide abyss on my mind and I’m turning back
Into the girl I always wanted me to be
I bathed in my sympathy, I’m begging to be clean
I’ll send a postcard as I try to find my way
My ghost behind me, I know that I’ll make it through and be okay
Be okay
There’s a light that’s up ahead
And I’ll be catching it the first thing in the morning
I’m on my way
Towards a southern town beneath the stars I’ll wander every night
'Cause Tennessee, you’ve been the nicest place to me
Oh, there’s a siren that is deafening
As I try to uncover where I’ve been
But everybody’s second guessing
All the moves their pawns have made
And I laugh to myself at this mess I’ve made
I’m not the girl I always thought that I would be
And I stopped holding all my breath on silly things
But all the years I spent just trying to believe
That I’d make it out of here and on to something only in my dreams
In my dreams
There’s a light that’s up ahead
And I’ll be catching it the first thing in the morning
I’m on my way
Towards a southern town beneath the stars I’ll wander every night
'Cause Tennessee, you’ve been the nicest place to me
And I’m on my way
I’m on my way
I’m not the girl I always dreamed that I would be
But on my way to there I know I’ll surely see
My own markers as I drive down 65
Take me to somewhere that had always made me feel alive
Oh, alive
'Cause there’s a light that’s up ahead
And I’ll be catching it the first thing in the morning
I’m on my way
Towards a southern town beneath the stars I’ll wander every night
'Cause Tennessee, you’ve been the nicest thing to me