Lyrics

When I saw you all decked out put the mirror to your mouth
When I didn't get no breath I knew what you were all about

You've been dead for fifteen years
And I guess that's why you're here
The dinosaurs are dancing you're just crying in your beer

And the band played Freebird and you felt so alone
You were looking for a reason to pretend not to be stoned
And the band played Freebird like it would never end
On a highway to oblivion with an old forgotten friend

You've been living in the past 'cause it all went by so fast
And you need a song to sum it up a tune you know will last

Now don't push me off the dock but it's just a classic crock
Your radio don't know better it's the loudest on the block

And the band played Freebird and you felt so alone
You were looking for a reason to pretend not to be stoned
And the band played Freebird like it would never end
On a highway to oblivion with an old forgotten friend

So I trashed my old car radio hoping luck would drag me through
I drove down to the grocers humming on a pink kazoo
I was looking for the lentils when a voice called out my name
Singing "If I stay here with you now,
things just couldn't be the same"

And the band played Freebird and I was seeing red
When I blew away that checkout girl I guess I lost my head
And the band played Freebird now they're taking me away
But as long as I don't hear that song I know I'll be okay

So they tossed me in a padded room the walls were white and clean
They put me in a straitjacket they fed me thorazine
There was muzak on the PA the tune I knew it well
'Twas an ageless timeless melody they piped it in from hell

And the band played Freebird they strapped me down with chains
Two thousand volts fifty milligrams now I don't know my name
And the band played Freebird they locked me in the cell
You might say poetic justice but I say it's living hell

Copyright Control 2001 Eric Harrison/EHP Records