Fly Back Home

Saw a red-tail hawk, he broke here

Said, "Man what happened to your dignity?"

He said, "Subdivisions have taken my home

There's no more prey to eat"

I said, "Where we gonna live?"

He said, "Anywhere you want to, I guess

All you creatures walking upright 'round here

Well you really made a mess"

I wish we both could fly back home

To the green fields of our youth

Where friends and family set the tone

With the hardcore language of the truth

I know time's been on destruction

The past is over every day

I wish we both could fly back home

But we can't, so I guess I'll just fly away

An owl swooped in as I was driving my pickup through the creek

He said, "I was only trying to scare you

But instead you scared the hell right out of me

With 345 horses, a locking differential, and four-wheel drive

I guess you were living large there, country boy

I was just trying to survive"

I wish we both could fly back home

To the green fields of our youth

Where friends and family set the tone

With the hardcore language of the truth

I know time's been on destruction

The past is over every day

I wish we both could fly back home

But we can't, so I guess I'll just fly away

Fly away

There was a rattlesnake up on the road

I ran him over and over until he died

Then his ghost rose up and coiled around this fear I hold inside

And he flew on off to heaven as I sat there in my instrument of death

I had to think what I was doing

I had to think just to draw another breath

I wish we both could fly back home

To the green fields of our youth

Where friends and family set the tone

With the hardcore language of the truth

I know time's been on destruction

The past is over every day

I wish we both could fly back home

But we can't, so I guess I'll just fly away

I wish we both could fly back home

But we can't, so I guess I'll just fly away