Stewart Eastham The Lights of Tennessee lyrics

The only thing you ever gave me was a second hand picture frame
That you found on a doorstep down the lane
So I filled it with a picture, a picture of you and me
But I seem to have lost it in the move to Tennessee

All them nights in Hollywood, smokin' cigarettes and drinkin' wine
Watchin' as the world passed me by
But after all of the misery, I never felt so free
As the night I decided to move to Tennessee

The lights of the Boulevard, they led me from your memory
And I finally found myself again in the lights of Tennessee

The leaves they are a fallin' like I fell so many times before
As Autumn came, I knew I needed more
Los Angeles lost its luster, a dirty city of broken dreams

But I woke up from the nightmare when I moved to Tennessee

The lights of the Boulevard, they led me from your memory
And I finally found myself again in the lights of Tennessee

I bet you never thought that I would move
Because I was always such a lapdog to you

It seems I might owe you a thank you and I know it might be hard to see
When you broke me, you gave me the courage to move to Tennessee

The lights of the Boulevard, they led me from your memory
And I finally found myself again in the lights of Tennessee