90 Miles from Nashville, on the Memphis side the river’s filling up and the trucks are blind They say it don’t come easy, so I’m not surprised to find you don’t get much for putting in your time Honey, you’re the rock, so I play the star but I’m nothing if nothing’s what they see so you can build me up or you can break my heart and my father’s child is all I’ll ever be Baby when the tide rolls in, I’ll be leaving on that morning train you won’t even know I wrote this song for you All across the state of Tennessee, I can hear you calling me but my hands are tied and there’s nothing I can do They teach you not to bite on the hand that feeds, but when you’re starving, Lord, sometimes you just don’t know If the hand is soft, and the eyes are sweet and they say a ring means nothing on the road