Now the old man was a farmer
But his head was in the sky
He worked every day but Sunday
Till the day he died
He'd search for rain and thunder
And listen for that sound
And in the dry years he went under
And never got off the ground
Never got off the ground
We all say when we're younger
That we will do great things
Me I used to have a hunger To wear a pilot's wings
I brought the circles that I ran in
Kind of turned my head around
And the planes I had my plans in
Never got off the ground
Never got off the ground
Don't raise your hopes I hear so many say
The higher they get
The closer they are
To flying away To flying away
We all stay there but for fortune
Is the way it should have been
If
we could take a bigger portion We'd fill our hands again
And now you see us on the sidewalks
And in the parks all over town
We're the people who've taken flight And never got off the ground
And never got off the ground
Don't raise your hopes I hear so many say
The higher they get The closer they are
To flying away To flying away