LIGHTS OUT IN TUPELO
2005 Dan May and Steve Patti VERSE 1
Crossing Mississippi
Tossing my self-pity
Lost and found this life again
Did hard time in Jackson
Ten long years in pa**ing
Making me a better man But here they only see
What I used to be CHORUS
Lights out in Tupelo
Packed up away I go
Ive taken more than I can stand
Well drive down through Birmingham
South to Montgomery, man
Folks there, they call it Alabam
I call it the Promised Land VERSE 2
This country sure looks pretty
Far outside the city
So much like from where I came
Where they know my record
Know my past is checkered
Some things never seem to change
I dont care anyhow
It wont matter now CHORUS
Lights out in Tupelo
Packed up away I go
Ive taken more than I can stand
Well drive down through Birmingham
South to Montgomery, man
Folks there, they call it Alabam
I call it the Promised Land BRIDGE Where the catfish run
In the morning sun
And the songbirds all call out to me
Youre free But here, theyll never see
The man that I could be CHORUS
Lights out in Tupelo
Packed up away I go
Ive taken more than I can stand
Well drive down through Birmingham
South to Montgomery, man
Folks there, they call it Alabam
I call it the Promised Land