Memphis Night Won’t Let Me Go

[Verse 1]

Late train crying down the river

My shoes still wet from the rain

Street sign leaning like a preacher

Trying to spell out my name

I got a suitcase full of letters

I never had the nerve to send

And a heart that keeps on knocking

On the same old door again

[Chorus]

Memphis night won’t let me go

Holds me like a hallelujah

Smoke and sorrow in my throat

I keep coming back to you

Yeah

Every wrong turn

Every lost fight

Leads me to that blue church light

Memphis night

Memphis night won’t let me go (oh, won’t let me go)

[Verse 2]

Choir hums low in the basement

Frying grease

Perfume

And lies

You said you’d meet me by the staircase

I believed those borrowed eyes

Now I’m praying on a barstool

Tapping verses with my heel

If forgiveness had a jukebox

It would sound the way I feel

[Chorus]

Memphis night won’t let me go

Holds me like a hallelujah

Smoke and sorrow in my throat

I keep coming back to you

Yeah

Every wrong turn

Every lost fight

Leads me to that blue church light

Memphis night

Memphis night won’t let me go (oh, won’t let me go)

[Bridge]

I lay my trouble on this piano

Let these keys call out your name (your name)

If the angels ever walked Beale Street

They’d be stumbling just the same

[Chorus]

Memphis night won’t let me go

Holds me like a hallelujah

Smoke and sorrow in my throat

I keep coming back to you

Yeah

Every wrong turn

Every lost fight

Leads me to that blue church light

Memphis night

Memphis night won’t let me go (hey, won’t let me go)