Tupelo

Written By: Brent Beamer

Tupelo, he went last week

He said he had business in Mississippi

He kept his bags

In a briefcase in the back

Of his old car, a Lincoln from his Pa

He turned his back the day she left him

He drove down 55 through the humid night

And by a roadside he met the man

Everything seemed the way it always was

And then a flashbang, the Lincoln's back on the road

The new driver inched the seat back

With bloody shoes he pushed the gas down

About an hour out of Memphis

The business came and went as he did