back to tupelo

around the time of 'clambake', movie number twenty-five, you and the lying dutchman, are still in overdrive, you're as strong as when you started, mississippi in your soul, you can still be marlon brando, and the king of rock and roll, it isn't just the records, no, you must have hollywood, the songs alone are not enough, that much is understood, you'll soon be back in memphis, maybe then you'll know what to do, the storylines they're giving you, are just not ringing true, oh, it's a ways to go, back to tupelo, when you're young and beautiful, your dreams are all ideals, later on it's not the same, lord, everything is real, sixteen hundred miles of highway, roll back to the truth, and a song to give your mother, in your first recording booth, around the time of 'clambake', that old dream's still rolling on, sometimes there'll be the feeling, things are going wrong, the morning star is fading, lord, the mississippi's cold, you can still be marlon brando, and the king of rock and roll, but it's a ways to go, back to tupelo