Fly Away

歌詞

Awful still out there, too still for me We used to go on outside whenever something was open to buy some tea Feel like you could die here, middle of main street, plain as day And the sun would bake you dry and the wind blow you away Everybody's shifting some people in the air Half of me wants to crack the code, the other half don't care I wouldn't bat an eyelid if right now someone said "Boy, the folks you talking to been a hundred years dead." Hey, fly away Hey, sky is gray Hey, fly away Hey, fly away I don't understand why I owe anybody anything I feel like a tightrope walker and they took away my string I feel like someone squeezed the juice out of my fruit Like everyone's in sweat pants and I alone still wear a suit I used to feel like a Mexican bandit when I picked up my guitar Now it's nuclear winter, I gotta pay for a new car Hey, fly away Hey, sky is gray Hey, fly away Hey, fly away Sometimes I wanna fly planes into buildings So I stay away from planes I want sweet oblivion and outside I want dripping rain Tripping over my underwear and cigarette shelf They say this river runs like freedom But right now it's gone dry The water tower's run dry The sun's falling outta the sky Hey, fly away Hey, sky is gray Hey, fly away Hey, fly away Why is the car still running? Won't someone turn it off Who is looking in my window? I heard somebody cough Things so important a few months back Now barely catch my interest, I feel I'm losing track Of people, of names Of places, and of friends Excuse me for not keeping up With all the latest trends Hey, fly away Hey, sky is gray Hey, fly away Hey, fly away Well excuse me for behaving in a manner that seems rude Most of my waking moments deal with finding food Something for my family, something for my nation Designer boots for grandma, designer drugs for my patients I've been rejected, I've been collected I've been neglected and injected and inspected Don't be rejected, you will be protected Send me all your money so that I can get elected Hey, fly away Hey, sky is gray Hey, fly away Hey, fly away Well I lost my sense of balance and I lost my sense of smell In a car accident near the liberty bell I lost my sense of timing and I lost my sense of touch From commercials and checking my e-mail too much I have no taste, lots of people tell me that My eyesight was pretty much shot right off the bat All that's left is some skewed inner vision And some obsolete info on nuclear fission Hey, fly away Hey, sky is gray Hey, fly away Hey, fly away Well I got this town to myself finally Think I might go and strap myself down And sleep off this headache and sleep off this war And maybe my dreams will tell me what it all was for I might steal some clothes and get my face all dirty And hop on the freight train that rolls in around 4:30 Might see you up in the sky If we flap our wings and learn to fly Hey, fly away Hey, sky is gray Hey, fly away Hey, fly away Hey, fly away Hey, fly away Hey, fly away Hey, fly away