Lyrics:

I used to stress myself to sleep, Trying to catch or grab successNow I fight to leave this struggleTill the veins pop out my neckFrom me screaming at this microphone To get shit off my chestBut at the time I couldn''t flow And almost nobody had my backExcept my mama and she told me''Don''t ever give up having hope'' (I won''t)You can be a royal king if being a king is what you wantSo I soak my skin in ink On how I feel in desperationAnd I catch a couple Zs And I immerse and make a statementAnd I close my eyes and drift through the weedsOf the fields wide open with the owls and the treesAnd the snakes in the creeks got that muddy water ragingAfter the white church is shaking and the thunder lights the wayAnd past the double doors that open Red velvet on the steepleThe only dream of mine is living dreams out for my peopleSo let me grab a pillow and lay beneath the willowsAnd I''ll tell you all about it when I wake up from Tennessee dreamingYeah I went to sleep in a broke down Ford With a cracked windshield and barely any moneyNow I catch shit from these folks For turning my life around and making myself somethingBut I ain''t feeling bad, no not one bitIf you ain''t helping yourself I don''t wanna hear shit''Cause I didn''t have help in Music CityI''m a high school dropout, didn''t even finishNo GED, no damn degreeNow I''m talking to folks with perfect GPAsAsking me about choices they gotta Make while my voice on Rolling Stone magazine''Cause my face is a imagine of a genre Across this road in all these American streetsAnd it freaks me out till I pinch my skin Just to make sure that this ain''t a dreamAnd I close my eyes and drift through the weedsOf the fields wide open with the owls and the treesAnd the snakes in the creeks got that muddy water ragingAfter the white church is shaking and the thunder lights the wayAnd past the double doors that open Red velvet on the steepleThe only dream of mine is living dreams out for my peopleSo let me grab a pillow and lay beneath the willowsAnd I''ll tell you all about it when I wake up from Tennessee dreamingTennessee dreamingTennessee dreamingTennessee dreamingOh, Tennessee dreamingTennessee dreamingTennessee dreamingTennessee dreamingTennessee dreamingTennessee dreamingTennessee dreaming