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Artist/Band: Alison Krauss (And Union Station)
Lyrics for Song: Never Got Off the Ground
Lyrics for Album: Home on the Highways [Rounder/Cracker Barrel] [2005]



(Danny O'Keefe - Dave Mallett)



My father was a farmer

But his head was in the sky

He worked everyday but Sunday

'Til the day he died.



He prayed for rain and thunder

And listened for the sound

In the dry years he went under

He never got off the ground.



We all dream when we're younger

That we will do great things

Me, I used to have a hunger

To wear a pilot's wings.



--- Instrumental ---



But the circles that I ran in

Turned my head around

And the planes I had my plans in

Never got off the ground.



Don't raise your hopes

You hear so many say

The higher they get the closer

They are to flying away, fly away.



--- Instrumental ---



Don't raise your hopes

You hear so many say

The higher they get the closer

They are to flying away.



They say there but for fortune

Is the way it would have been

If we could take a bigger portion

We'd fill our hands again.



You see them on the sidewalks

In the parks all over town

Those who've taken flight

Never got off the ground...


Album Lyrics: Home on the Highways [Rounder/Cracker Barrel] [2005]


Alison Krauss (And Union Station)
"Home on the Highways [Rounder/Cracker Barrel] [2005]"


1. Borderline
2. Crazy As Me
3. Daylight
4. Ghost in This House
5. I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow
6. It All Comes Down to You
7. Momma Cried
8. Never Got Off the Ground
9. Rain Please Go Away
10. Unionhouse Branch