Daddy drove a truck out of West Texas,
Met Mama in her white uniform,
They said, "I do," drove west until Paradise:
Hissing Summer lawns.

They never went to Memphis....

I've been married, been divorced
And living on plastic and caffeine:
High-nosed rhinestone chic caprice,
Let them all eat cake, I'm going to Memphis!

I could have come up this somebody
Who sees with one eye blind,
Tripped through Memphis,
Never to see it with my anemic mind.

Grandma said the truth is in the seeing,
So what if it's not there in Tennessee?
Where would it exist?

Maps and charts and legends,
They ain't nothing if you can't read the signs.
I'm going to a place you can't get to
unless you close your eyes.