Fly Away
By Dan Bern (2003)
On album Fleeting Days (2003)

Awful still out there, too still for me We used to go on outside whenever something was open to buy some tea Feel like you could…
…die here, middle of main street, plain as day And the sun would bake you dry and the wind blow you away Everybody's shifting some…
Tripping over my underwear and cigarette shelf They say this river runs like freedom But right now it's gone dry The water tower's run…