Alison Krauss - Never Got Off The Ground

My father was a farmer


But his head was in the sky


He worked everyday but Sunday


'Til the day he died


He prayed for rain and thunder


And listened for the sound


In the dry years he went under


He never got off the ground





We all dream when we're younger


That we will do great things


Me, I used to have a hunger


To wear a pilot's wings





But the circle's that I ran in


Turned my head around


And the planes I had my plans in


Never got off the ground





Don't raise your hopes


You hear so many say


The higher they get


The closer they are to flying away


Fly away..





Don't raise your hopes


You hear so many say


The higher they get


The closer they are to flying away





They say there but for fortune


Is the way it would have been


If we could take a bigger portion


We'd fill our hands again


You see them on the sidewalks


In the parks all over town


Those who've taken flight


Never got off the ground