. . . and the Band Played Freebird

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