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[Originally by Arrested Development]
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Lord I've really been real stressed
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Down and out, losing ground
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Although I am black and proud
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Problems got me pessimistic
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Brothers and sisters keep messing up
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Why does it have to be so damn tuff?
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I don't know where I can go
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To let these ghosts out of my skull
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My grandmas past, my brothers gone
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I never at once felt so alone
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I know you're supposed to be my steering wheel
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Not just my spare tire (home)
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But lord I ask you (home)
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To be my guiding force and truth (home)
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For some strange reason it had to be (home)
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He guided me to Tennessee (home)
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Take me to another place
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Take me to another land
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Make me forget all that hurts me
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Let me understand your plan
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Lord it's obvious we got a relationship
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Talking to each other every night and day
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Although you're superior over me
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We talk to each other in a friendship way
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Then outta nowhere you tell me to break
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Outta the country and into more country
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Past Dyesburg into Ripley
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Where the ghost of childhood haunts me
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Walk the roads my forefathers walked
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Climbed the trees my forefathers hung from
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Ask those trees for all their wisdom
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They tell me my ears are so young (home)
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Go back to from whence you came (home)
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My family tree my family name (home)
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For some strange reason it had to be (home)
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He guided me to Tennessee (home)
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Now I see the importance of history
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Why people be in the mess that they be
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Many journeys to freedom made in vain
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By brothers on the corner playing ghetto games
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I ask you lord why you enlightened me
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Without the enlightenment of all my folks
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He said cuz I set myself on a quest for truth
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And he was there to quench my thirst
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But I am still thirsty...
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The lord allowed me to drink some more
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He said what I am searching for a
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