The mississippi delta was shining   Like a national guitar   I am following the river   Down the highway   Through the cradle of the civil war   I'm going to graceland   Graceland   In memphis tennessee   I'm going to graceland   Poorboys and pilgrims with families   And we are going to graceland   My traveling companion is nine years old   He is the child of my first marriage   But I've reason to believe   We both will be received   In graceland      She comes back to tell me she's gone   As if I didn't know that   As if I didn't know my own bed   As if I'd never noticed   The way she brushed her hair from her forehead   And she said losing love   Is like a window in your heart   Everybody sees you're blown apart   Everybody sees the wind blow      I'm going to graceland   Memphis tennessee   I'm going to graceland   Poorboys and pilgrims with families   And we are going to graceland      And my traveling companions   Are ghosts and empty sockets   I'm looking at ghosts and empties   But I've reason to believe   We all will be received   In graceland      There is a girl in new york city   Who calls herself the human trampoline   And sometimes when I'm falling, flying   Or tumbling in turmoil I say   Oh, so this is what she means   She means we're bouncing into graceland   And I see losing love   Is like a window in your heart   Everybody sees you're blown apart   Everybody sees the wind blow      In graceland, in graceland   I'm going to graceland   For reasons I cannot explain   There's some part of me wants to see   Graceland   And I may be obliged to defend   Every love, every ending   Or maybe there's no obligations now   Maybe I've a reason to believe   We all will be received   In graceland