John Hiatt

Fly Back Home
saw a red tailed hawk eatin' road kill said "Man, what happened to your dignity?" he said "Subdivisions have taken my home and there's no more pray to eat." i said, "Where we gonna live?" he said "Anywhere you want to, i guess all you creature walkin' upright 'Round here well you've really made a mess." CHORUS: i wish we both could fly back home to the green fields of our youth where friends and family set the tone Songtextewith the hardcore language of the truth i know times bent 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 down as i was drivin' my pickup through the creek he said, "i was only tryin' to scare ya but instead you scared the hell right out of me." with three hundred forty-Five houses a locking differential and four-wheel drive i guess you were livin' large there, country boy i was just tryin' to survive CHORUS: 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 times bent 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 there was a rattlesnake up on the road i ran him over and over 'Til he died then his ghost rose up and curled around this fear i hold inside he flew on off to heaven as i sat there in my instrument of death i had to think what i was doin' i had to think just to draw another breath CHORUS: 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 times bent 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 CHORUS: 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 times bent 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 Aus Songtexte Mania