Top Songs By Eric Harrison
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Eric Harrison
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When I saw you all decked out
Put the mirror to your mouth
When I didn't get no breath
I knew what you were all about
You've been dead for 15 years
And I guess that's why you're here
The dinosaurs are dancing
You're just crying in your beer
And the band played 'Freebird'
And you felt so alone
You were looking for a reason
To pretend not to be stoned
And the band played 'Freebird'
Like it would never end
On a highway to oblivion
With an old forgotten friend
You've been living in the past
'Cause it all went by so fast
And you need a song to sum it up
A tune you know will last
Now don't push me off the dock
But it's just a classic crock
Your radio don't know better
It's the loudest on the block
And the band played 'Freebird'
And you felt so alone
You were looking for a reason
To pretend not to be stoned
And the band played 'Freebird'
Like it would never end
On a highway to oblivion
With an old forgotten friend
So I trashed my old car radio
Hoping luck would drag me through
I drove down to the grocer's
Humming on a pink kazoo
I was looking for the lentils
When a voice called out my name
Singing 'if I stay here with you now things just couldn't be the same'
And the band played 'Freebird'
And I was seeing red
When I blew away that checkout girl
I guess I lost my head
And the band played 'Freebird'
Now they're taking me away
But as long as I don't hear that song
I know I'll be okay
So they tossed me in a padded room
The walls were white and clean
They put me in a straitjacket
And they fed me thorazine
There was muzak on the PA
The tune I knew it well
'Twas an ageless, timeless melody
They piped it in from hell
And the band played 'Freebird'
They strapped me down with chains
Two thousand volts, fifty milligrams
Now I don't know my name
And the band played 'Freebird'
They locked me in the cell
You might say poetic justice
But I say it's living hell
And the band played 'Freebird' and we're all so alone
We're all looking for a reason
To pretend not to be stoned
And the band plays 'Freebird' and it will never end
On a highway to oblivion with an old forgotten friend
Writer(s): Eric Harrison
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