To Live is to Fly — текст песни (Townes Van Zandt)

By townes van zandt



Wont say I love you, babe,

Wont say I need you, babe,

But Im gonna get you babe

And I will not do you wrong.

Livings mostly wasting time

And Ill waste my share of mine

But it never feels to good,

So lets dont take to long.

Youre soft as glass

And Im a gentle man;

We got the sky to talk about

And the earth to lie upon.





Days, up and down they come

Like rain on a congadrum

Forget most, remember some

But dont turn none away.

Everything is not enough

And nothin is to much to bear.

Where you been is good and gone

All you keep is 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.





Goodbye to all my friends

Its time to go again

Think of all the poetry

And the pickin down the line

Ill miss the system here

The bottoms low

And the trebles clear

But it dont pay to think to much

On things you leave behind.

I will be gone

But it wont be long

I will be abringin back the melodies

And rhythm that I find.





We all got holes to fill

Them holes are all thats real.

Some fall on you like a storm,

Sometimes you dig your own.

The choice is yours to make,

Time is yours to take;

Some sail upon/dive into the sea,

Some toil upon the stone.





To live is to fly

Low and high,

So shake the dust off of your wings

And the sleep out of your eyes;





Shake the dust off of your wings

And the tears out of your eyes.