High Flying Bird - The Boot Hill Five

The high flying bird, flies above You cannot see him from the Earth He sees as he flies and knows as he sees The masses below, there's trouble below. This high flying bird, has no sense of time For a thousand years he's climbed these skies His brothers have burned Flown too close to the sun But higher and higher This white bird flies This white bird flies I feel you in my sleep When the sun's down And the world sleeps below You call across endless oceans I hear you and want to fly too There's no turning back, as blue becomes black The air becomes thin, this flight begins But the bird can still breathe Brighter than before On celestial wing This bird can now sing This bird can now sing I feel you in my sleep When the sun's down And the world sleeps below You call across endless oceans I hear you and want to fly too Repeat

You wore a little cross of gold around your neck I saw it as you flew between my reason Like a raven in the night time when you left I wear a chain upon my wrist that bears no name You touched it and you wore it And you kept it in your pillow all the same My high-flying bird has flown from out my arms I thought myself her keeper She thought I meant her harm She thought I was the archer A weather man of words But I could never shoot down My high-flying bird The white walls of your dressing room are stained in scarlet red You bled upon the cold stone like a young man In the foreign field of death Wouldn't it be wonderful is all I heard you say You never closed your eyes at night and learned to love daylight Instead you moved away My high-flying bird has flown from out my arms I thought myself her keeper She thought I meant her harm She thought I was the archer A weather man of words But I could never shoot down My high-flying bird has flown from out my arms I thought myself her keeper She thought I meant her harm She thought I was the archer A weather man of words But I could never shoot down My high-flying bird My high-flying, high-flying bird My high-flying, high-flying bird My high-flying, high-flying bird My high-flying, high-flying bird

We got together to turn the world around Searchin' within us to find a new sound. We climb high up to the sky We don't wait and see It's not a lie that we try to find the key. You and I flyin' high We climb high High up to the sky. You and I flyin' high Once in a while we should try flyin' high. We got together to turn from the ground Searchin' for things nobody found. We're working hard to climb up the wall And we can't wait and see 'Cause after all we could fall and not see the key. You and I flyin' high We climb high High up to the sky. . . . Movin' together we feel the same Time isn't wasted playin' the game. All the high feelin' isn't a fame You're flyin' high We hope in our name Once in a while we all Should try flyin' high. You and I flyin' high - Yes We're gonna make it - We climb high High up to the sky - Yeah Up to the sky - You and I flyin' high - Yes We're gonna make it - Once in a while we should Try flyin' high. You and I flyin' high We climb high High up to the sky. . . .