Native Son Lyrics by John Hiatt

Native Son Lyrics

    You finally found the mainstream
    In the middle of your life
    You tapped into a vein
    Of endless gold chains
    Now you're locked up tight
    Tearing down the middle of it
    Splitting it right in half
    Bobbing up and down the waves
    Like a runaway slave
    On a huck finn raft

    Chorus:
    Take your wife
    Take your family
    Take your gun
    Running through the woods
    And the burned out neighborhoods
    Looking for someone
    A member of your tribe
    A place you can hide
    'til the war has begun
    'cause in the fields before the flood
    You'll be spilling blood
    Like a native son

    Where you gonna run to
    There ain't no underground
    If only you could fly
    You'd cut across the sky
    Like a rifle round
    Oh, who are your people
    And where is your homeland
    'cause they're dying side by side
    At the river of pride
    Where we tried to take a stand

    Chorus twice

    In the fields before the flood
    You'll be spilling blood
    Like a native son

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