To Live Is To Fly Lyrics - Live At The Old Quarter - Townes Van Zandt

Won't say I love you, babe 

Won't say I need you, babe 

I'm gonna get you babe 

And I will not do you wrong 

Living's mostly wasting time 

I'll waste my share of mine 

But it never feels too good 

So let's don't take too long 

Well you're soft as glass 

And I'm a gentleman 

We got the sky to talk about 

And the world to lie upon 

Days up and down they come 

Like rain on a conga drum 

Forget most, remember some 

Don't turn none away 

Everything is not enough 

And nothin' is too much to bear 

Where you've been is good and gone 

All you keep's the getting there 

Well to live is to fly, all low and high 

So shake the dust off of your wings 

And the sleep out of your eyes 

It's goodbye to all my friends 

It's time to go again 

But think of all the poetry 

And the pickin' down the line 

Well I'll miss the system here 

The bottom's low and the treble's clear 

But it don't pay to think to much 

On things you leave behind 

Well I may be gone 

But it won't be long 

I will be a bringin' back the melodies 

And rhythm that I find 

We all got holes to fill 

And them holes are all that's real 

Some fall on you like a storm 

Sometimes you dig your own 

The choice is yours to make 

And time is yours to take 

Some dive into the sea 

Some toil upon the stone 

Well to live is to fly, all 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