speech
lord i’ve really been real stressed
down and out losing ground
although i am black and proud
problems got me pessimistic
brothers and sisters keep messin’ 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’s 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 home
but lord i ask you home
to be my guiding force and truth home
for some strange reason it had to be home
he guided me to tennessee home
take me to another place
take me to another land
make me forget all that hurts me
let me understand your plan
speech
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 outta nowhere you tell me to break
outta the country and into more country
past dyersburg into ripley
where the ghost of childhood haunts me
walk the roads my forefathers walked
climbed the trees my forefathers hung from
ask those trees for all their wisdom
they tell me my ears are so young home
go back to from whence you came home
my family tree my family name home
for some strange reason it had to be home
he guided me to tennessee home
take me to another place
take me to another land
make me forget all that hurts me
let me understand your plan
interlude aerle taree
eshe she went down to holly springs
rasadon and baba they went down to peachtree
headliner i challenge you to a game of horseshoes a game of horseshoes
speech
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 enlightened me
without the enlightenment of all my folks
he said cause i set myself on a quest for truth
and he was there to quench my thirst
but i am still thirsty
the lord allowed 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 started 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 that hurts me
let me understand your plan
aerle taree
headliner i won the game of horseshoes
now you owe me a watermelon
let’s go climb trees and skip over rocks
do like they do below the border
speech’s hair
don’t it look like the roots of the tree that the ancestors were hung from
but that’s okay get it cause he’s down to earth
Artist: Arrested Development
Year: 1992
Decade: 90s
Language: en
Word Count: 239