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Boy From Tupelo Lyrics
You don't love me this I know
Don't need a bible to tell me so
I hung around a little too long
I was good but now I'm gone
Like the buffalo
That boy from Tupelo
Anyway the wind can blow
That's where I'm gonna go
I'll be gone like a five-and-dime
It'll be the perfect crime
Just ask the boy from Tupelo
He's the King and he oughta know
The shoulder I've been leanin' on
Is the coldest place I've ever known
There's nothin' left for me 'round here
Looks like it's time to disappear
Like the buffalo
That boy from Tupelo
The old wall down in Jericho
Maybelle on the radio
I'll be gone like the five-and-dime
It'll be the perfect crime
Just ask the boy from Tupelo
He's the King and he oughta know
You don't love me this I know
Don't need a bible to tell me so
But it's a shame and it's a sin
Everything I coulda' been to you
Your last chance Texaco
The sweetheart of your rodeo
A juliet to your romeo
The border you cross into Mexico
I'll never understand why or how
Oh, but baby it's too late now
Just ask the boy from Tupelo
He's the King and he oughta know
Don't need a bible to tell me so
I hung around a little too long
I was good but now I'm gone
That boy from Tupelo
Anyway the wind can blow
That's where I'm gonna go
I'll be gone like a five-and-dime
It'll be the perfect crime
Just ask the boy from Tupelo
He's the King and he oughta know
Is the coldest place I've ever known
There's nothin' left for me 'round here
Looks like it's time to disappear
That boy from Tupelo
The old wall down in Jericho
Maybelle on the radio
I'll be gone like the five-and-dime
It'll be the perfect crime
Just ask the boy from Tupelo
He's the King and he oughta know
Don't need a bible to tell me so
But it's a shame and it's a sin
Everything I coulda' been to you
The sweetheart of your rodeo
A juliet to your romeo
The border you cross into Mexico
I'll never understand why or how
Oh, but baby it's too late now
Just ask the boy from Tupelo
He's the King and he oughta know
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Submitted by
lunargirl On Jun 06, 2002
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It's a love lost song that's also a tribute to Elvis. She's leaving someone who's emotionally neglected her for a long time now, and she's reflecting on what could have been in their relationship and all the things that could have been in it. Mainly though she talks about what she could have been for this person if they had appreciated her more. As it is though, she's leaving. I love the things she lists as examples of things that are also gone. Not things I would have thought of or that pop up in a lot of other song. I mean, "your last chance Texaco?"