Tennessee - Intellectual

[Verse 1]

Do you stand better on your own?

Do you wish that I would come back home?

The smell of cigarettes, it leaks, into my lungs every time I breathe

I taste tobacco in your air

I feel your absence when you stare at the back of me

You're imprinting with every time you say, "Sorry."

Sorry

450 weeks, three blinks since you last called me

And I haven't picked up the last dozen times

So you know what alone is like

Darling, listen, mark my words

I could leave you here in your dirt

Don't go back to Tennessee

Tell me what is wrong with me

Have you moved on yet; it's been eight years

A question for you, for me, for tears

Who took your place? A dozen guys

But, just like you, none put the time

Wishing funny Englishmen got to my mom before you did

But they were all on the TV while you were off in Tennessee

Now you have another kid to focus all your attention

Be for her what you never were for me; don't leave her in the dirt

She doesn't deserve that treatment, just like you don't deserve her

Just don't leave her in the dirt

Please, I beg, don't leave her

(Ooo, ooo, ooo, oo)

Take me back to Tennessee, tell me what is wrong with me

Don't go back to Tennessee, tell me what is wrong with me