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

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




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