Flying Over Water

Jason Isbell 
Flying over Water 

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From the sky we look so organized and brave 
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Walls that make up barricades and graves 
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Daddy's little empire built by hand and built by slaves 
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From the sky we look so organized and brave 

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In the heat I saw you rising from the dirt 
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Drunken tears and tugging at your skirt 
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If only you could tell me then what part of you got hurt 
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In the heat I saw you rising from the dirt 

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Take my hand baby we're over land  
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I know flying over water makes you cry 
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Where's that liquor cart? 
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Maybe we shouldn't start 
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But I can't say for the life of me say why 

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From the sky to highway straight as it could be 
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A string pulled tight home from Tennessee 
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Still somehow these bitches took the better part of me 
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From the sky to highway straight as it could be 

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Take my hand baby we're over land  
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I know flying over water makes you cry 
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Been in the sky so long 
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Seems like the long way home 
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But I can't for the life of me say why 

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Did we leave our love behind? 
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Did we leave our love behind? 
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Did we leave our love behind? 
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Did we leave our love behind? 

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Take my hand baby we're over land  
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I know flying over water makes you cry 
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Been in the sky so long 
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Seems like the long way home 
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But I can't for the life of me say why 

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Did we leave our love behind? 
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Did we leave our love behind?