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