Ran across a friend of mine
Hadn't seen since eleventh grade
Saw our name on the marquie sign

And stopped in to see us play

He said, man it's been a few years

I said, man, they'll let anybody in here
We sat and talked of rebel days gone by
And we laughed of how our dreams of California

Never got much past the county line
We drank a toast to long lost friends
And all those crazy things we did


It was freebird in a firebird
On the way up Hawthorne road

Long necks, long hair
Wild eyed girls and rock and roll
Play the drum set on the dance floor

Lighters held up for the encore
And not a worry in that southern summer sky
And we let that freebird fly


He said, man it's funny
How that time is bound to race

And how you'd give back your right arm
To get back just a day


Or retaste your first teenage kiss
Feel them backroads turn and twist
Seeing nothing but dust in your rearview


There wasn't a car in our town any faster
Now yesterday's just rusting in my pasture

We were too big, the town was too small
But looking back we had it all


Singing freebird in a firebird
On the way up Hawthorne road
Long necks, long hair

Wild eyed girls and rock and roll
Play the drum set on the dance floor
Lighters held up for the encore

And not a worry in that southern summer sky
And we let that freebird fly


[Instrumental Interlude]

It was freebird in a firebird

On the way up Hawthorne road
Long necks, long hair
Wild eyed girls and rock and roll

Play the drum set on the dance floor
Lighters held up for the encore
And not a worry in that southern summer sky

And we let that freebird fly
Let that freebird fly
Fly on freebird