To Live Is To Fly

Cowboy Junkies · Best Of Cowboy Junkies [2001]

Won't say I love you babe, I won't say I need you babe

But I'm going to get you babe and I will not do you wrong

Livings mostly wasting time and I waste my share of mine

but it never feels too good so lets not take too long



Your soft as glass and I'm a gentle man

we got the sky to talk about and the world to lie upon

days up and down they come like rain on a conga drum

forget most remember some but don't turn some away

Everything is not enough nothing is too much to bear

where you been is good and gone all you keeps the getting there



To live is to fly low and high

so shake the dust off of your wings

and the sleep out of your eyes



it's goodbye to all my friends its time to go again

think of all the poetry and the pickin down the line

I'll miss the system here the bottoms low and the trebles clear

but it don't pay to think too much on the things you leave behind



I may be gone but it won't be long

I'll be bringing back the melody and the rhythm that I find



we all got holes to fill and them holes are all that's real

some fall on you like a storm sometimes you dig your own

but choice is yours to make time is yours to take

some dive into the sea some toil upon the stone



To live is to fly low and high

so shake the dust off your wings

and the sleep out of your eyes