Been away a year today To wander and roam I don't care it's muddy there But this is my home Got my toes turned Dixie way 'Round the delta let me lay Dixie moonlight Swanee shore Headed homebound just once more To my Mississippi delta home

Heaven light a way for a fallen Let me ease the pain from my mother But he feels the deception in his head Down by the lake of Mississippi A boy was born poor and abandoned And as he walk you could hear him yearning For a home and he prays And by the

But not for me I was a fool to fall and get that way Heigh-ho! Alas! And also, lack-a-day Although I can't dismiss the memory of her kiss I guess she's not for me They're writing songs of love A lucky star's above With love to lead the way I've found

I miss you, I miss your smile And I still shed a tear every once in a while And even though it's different now You're still here somehow My heart won't let you go And I need you to know I miss you, sha la la la la Sha la la la la, sha la la la la

And I still miss someone At my door the leaves are falling A cold wild wind has come Sweethearts walk by together I go out on a party And look for a little fun But I find a darkened corner because I still miss someone Oh, no I never got over those blues

Gravity and distance I don't have an explanation For another lonely night I just feel this sense of mission And the sense of what is right Take it easy on my now I'd be there if I could I'm so full of what is right I can't see what is good

*Nas talking* "The light is there." See I come from Mississippi I was young and runnin' wild Ended up in New York City, where I had my first child I named the boy Nasir, all the boys call him Nas I told him as a youngster, he'll be the greatest man

We never even talked We never even thought in the long run Whenever it was painful Whenever I was away I’d miss you And I want to see you here beside me, dear But things aren’t clear We never even tried And I miss you

Lover man, oh, where can you be? I don't know why but I'm feeling so sad I long to try something I never had Never had no kissin' Oh, what I've been missin' The night is cold and I'm so alone I'd give my soul just to call you my own Got a moon above me

I need that Drink some, smoke some Yeah, hell of a day to load a twenty two and take it to the woods and let it ring into the night And break a bottle with the bullet, yes I'm 'bout it motherfucker Not a single solitary thing is missing from my southern