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Fly Back Home

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Fly Back Home

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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 around here

Well, you've 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 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

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 till 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

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

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

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