To Live Is to Fly

Won't say I love you, babe

Won't say I need you, babe

But I'm gonna get you, babe

And I will not do you wrong

Livin's mostly wastin' time

And I've wasted my share of mine

It never finished good

So let's not take too long

Oh, you're soft as glass

And I'm a gentle man

We got the sky to talk about

And the world to lie upon

Days up and down they come

Like rain on a conga drum

Forget most, remember some

But don't turn none away

Everything is not enough

And nothing is too much to bear

But when you've been good and gone

All you keep is the getting there

Hard to live is to fly

Both low and high

So shake the dust off your broken wings

And the sleep out of your eyes

Goodbye to all my friends

It's time to go again

So think of all the poetry

And the pickin' down the line

I miss the system here

Bottom's low and the treble's clear

But it don't pay to think too much

On the things you leave behind

Oh, we may be gone

But it won't be long

I'll be bringing back the melodies

And the rhythms that I found

We've all got holes to fill

And them holes are all that's real

Some fall on you like a storm

Sometimes you dig your own

The choice is yours to make

The time is yours to take

Some dive into the sea

Some toil upon the stone

Hard to live is to fly

Both low and high

So shake the dust off your broken wings

And the sleep out of your eyes

Shake the dust off your broken wings

And the tears out of your eyes