Fly Back Home Lyrics - 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 

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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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 

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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