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