Tennessee Dreamin

I used to stress myself to sleep, trying to catch or grab success
 Now I fight to leave the struggle to the veins above my neck
 From me screaming at this microphone to get shit off my chest
 But at the time I couldn't vote when almost nobody had my back
 Except my mama and she told me,
 Don't ever give up having hope (I won't)
 You can be a royal king if being a king is what you want
 So I soak my skin in ink on how I feel in desperation
 And I catch a couple Zs and I immerse and make a statement
 And I close my eyes and drift through the weeds
 Of the fields wide open with the owls and the trees
 And the snakes in the creeks got that muddy water raging
 After the white church is shaking and the thunder lights the way
 And past the double doors that open with velvet on the steeple
 The only dream of mine is living dreams out for my people
 So let me grab a pillow and lay beneath the willows
 And I'll tell you all about it when I wake up from Tennessee dreaming
 Young U with a cracked windshield and barely any money
 Now I get shit from these folks for turning my life around
 and I got myself something
 But I ain't feeling bad no not one bit
 If you ain't helping yourself I don't wanna hear shit
 'Cause I didn't have help in music city,
 I'm a high school dropout, didn't even finish
 No GD, no damn degree, now I'm talking to folks with GPA
 Asking me about choices they gotta make, well my voice on Rolling Stone magazine
 'Cause my face is a imagine of a genre across this road in all these American streets
 And it freaks me out till I pinch my skin just to make sure that this ain't a dream
 And I close my eyes and drift through the weeds
 Of the fields wide open with the owls and the trees
 And the snakes in the creeks got that muddy water raging
 After the white church is shaking and the thunder lights the way
 And past the double doors that open with velvet on the steeple
 The only dream of mine is living dreams out for my people
 So let me grab a pillow and lay beneath the willows
 And I'll tell you all about it when I wake up from Tennessee dreaming
 Tennessee dreaming
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 Ooh, Tennessee dreaming
 Tennessee dreaming
 Tennessee dreaming
 Tennessee dreaming
 Tennessee dreaming
 Tennessee dreaming
 Tennessee dreaming