Touching Down in Knoxville
By True Margrit
About the song:
Knoxville, Tennessee is my hometown. I went to high school and college there, I had my first apartment there, first job, first kiss, first nightclub gigs there. And then I moved to California where I had many more jobs, apartments, kisses, and gigs. Yet the map always looked like this: "Knoxville" in big bold familiar letters in the southeast of the U.S. wilderness and "San Francisco" in lower case alien letters perched precariously on a jagged bay way over in the west and a homesick stick figure of me standing by Golden Gate Bridge gazing east. I would go home and visit my mom and my friends every year. But then I was broke, or busy gigging, or in love, or brokenhearted and lonely and-snap!--four years went by and I hadn't gone home. And finally, when at the end of those four years, I did get on the plane to fly east, I knew the map had changed.
– True Margrit
Lyrics
waiting for the plane to land
a stranger in my homeland
we flew through Atlanta's lights
and San Francisco's remote tonight
I'll be touching down in Knoxville
the streets don't quite look the same
though I recall their names
different houses with different beds
and San Francisco in my head
I'll be touching down in Knoxville
they say all roads lead to home
but there's a fork in my road
three thousand miles wide
'cause you're in San Francisco tonight
I'll be touching down in Knoxville