Native Son Lyrics - John Hiatt

You finally found the mainstream 

In the middle of your life 

You tapped into a vein 

Of endless gold chains 

Now you're locked up tight 

Tearing down the middle of it 

Splitting it right in half 

Bobbing up and down the waves 

Like a runaway slave 

On a Huck Finn raft 

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CHORUS: 

Take your wife 

Take your family 

Take your gun 

Running through the woods 

And the burned out neighborhoods 

Looking for someone 

A member of your tribe 

A Place you can hide 

'Til the war has begun 

'Cause in the fields before the flood 

You'll be spilling blood 

Like a native son 

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Where you gonna run to 

There ain't no underground 

If only you could fly 

You'd cut across the sky 

Like a rifle round 

Oh, who are your people 

And where is your homeland 

'Cause they're dying side by side 

At the river of pride 

Where we tried to take a stand 

REPEAT CHORUS TWICE 

In the fields before the flood 

You'll be spilling blood 

Like a native son