If I never saw you   You'd still live in my dreams   Calling out from stages   And music magazines   ?If I were a painter   You'd be green and gold   Carved out of matches   But broken out of stone   ?Taken from the fire of your fiddle   Words of unspoken, blinding truth   If I couldn't see it, I was lost in my youth   But I'm going back to Memphis - after you.   ?If I could have seen you   With blood on your bones   Poison in your fingers   But music in your soul   ?You could have been my lover   Taught me everything I know   But now we are your children   Your flowers in the snow   ?But all you ever wanted was to see the heart of the city, oh   And all you ever got was hand to mouth   So I know you'll be walking for a long, long time   Cause you're going back to Memphis - heading South.   ?Brothers till the night came   And whispered in the pines   Tempting me with secrets   To play a game with time   ?Now I feel you in the walls   And I know you're in the air   And it's just like I can touch you   You're living everywhere   ?But all you ever wanted was to be in the heart of the city, oh   And all you ever got was handed out   So I know we'll be walking for a long, long time   Cause we're going back to Memphis - heading South   Going back to Memphis - heading South. ?