Album: Took a Long Time
stickin' on the back of my mind,
a strange inclination growing on me for I been so long trapped in a tin can working my way through guitar places
so many faces I don’t even know the names of Just like a wild bird, I’m coming home to you darling
Just like a wild bird, I’m coming home
I’ve got to turn my head around,
and shake the dust off this old town
just like a wild bird I’m coming home
God knows I been on the road too long
watching the miles roll up some other town
through faded jeans and down home scenes
I’ve had my fun, I needed a sun vacation
Just like a wild bird, I’m coming home to you darling
Just like a wild bird, I’m coming home
I’ve got to turn my head around,
and shake the dust off this old town
just like a wild bird I’m coming home
Over my shoulder down the past five years,
I see the faces of old friends, I reach out and hold them near
I wonder how it was I couldn’t bend down and lend an ear to you a stranger
get-ins, sit-ins, pull-outs and pull-ins and sour coffee in the early mornin'
drive-ins, well
it don’t take much to realize, that you’re only so much money in the big mans
eyes
and for every singin' mother’s son, I figure the chances are about ten thousand
to one, of ever makin' it now I used to believe that to be a star, you laid a much better song on a good
guitar and
before you could say, Hey Presto here I am well there you are, an overnight
sensation
So baby I’m coming home (I'm comin, I’m comin on home)
Yes baby I’m coming home (I'm comin, I’m comin on home)
Oh baby I’m coming home (I'm comin, I’m comin on home)
To you I’m coming home (I'm comin, I’m comin on home)
Just like a wild bird, (Just like wild bird, just like a wild bird,
like a wild bird, a wild bird)
sometimes I sail above the crystal morning,
see the world through a Perspex window
I’ve drunk the wine in the highest places,
and spread my soul in desert spaces,
but all the time with one eye on the clock I knew in my heart of hearts I was
runnin' on a time fuse
I met a man he said «boy you sound fine, just pin your name on the dotted line»
I think you’ll find half of what you make is not your own
you blink an eye and the other half will soon be gone
you sign it all with such good intent and by the time you’ve paid the devil his
ten percent
there might be just enough left over, to feed the wife and kids and pay the
rent if you don’t weaken
So baby I’m coming home (I'm comin, I’m comin on home)
Yes baby I’m coming home (I'm comin, I’m comin on home)
Oh baby I’m coming home (I'm comin, I’m comin on home)
To you I’m coming home (I'm comin, I’m comin on home)
I’m like a wild bird, I’m coming home to you darling
Just like a wild bird, I’m coming home
I’ve got to turn my head around, and shake the dust off this old town
just like a wild bird I’m coming home