Taking Flight - Intellectual

[Verse 1: Rodney Crowell]

We were somewhere east of Hattiesburg on a lonely stretch of nightmare

Gas gauge screaming empty, headlights in a fog

Two refugees from Greenville in line to wind up roadkill

With a parakeet named Chester and a one-eyed spotted dog

We'd been plowing through each day like so much Mississippi red dirt

Burning with no purpose save get out while we still can

Hell bent past the point of no return and going nowhere

With the best of good intentions, one more line drawn in the sand

Taking flight, forget about tomorrow

Wrong or right, the chips are gonna fall

Taking flight, going nowhere 'til we get there

Next time Hell starts freezing over, we'll be sure to give a call

So we got our education from a backwoods country station

Proof that there's a world out there came wrapped up in a song

Riding high on one wing and a foxhole prayer might get you there

But ten won't get you twenty if you bet your money wrong

[Verse 4: Rodney Crowell, Ashley McBryde]

Oh I never was the smartest but I didn't try to hide it

But that don't mean you get off light for leaving me alone

We were twenty feet from stardom, now you're staring down post-partum

An unwed mother soon to be that small voice on your phone

[Chorus: Rodney Crowell & Ashley McBryde, Ashley McBryde]

Taking flight, forget about tomorrow

Wrong or right, the chips are gonna fall

Taking flight, going nowhere 'til you get there

Next time Hell starts freezing over, be sure to give a call

Next time Hell starts freezing over, do be sure to give a call

Be sure to give a call