Native Son (Live at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, Pa 1996)
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
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
REPEAT TWICE
In the fields before the flood
You'll be spilling blood
Like a native son
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
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
REPEAT TWICE
In the fields before the flood
You'll be spilling blood
Like a native son
Credits
Writer(s): John Hiatt
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Other Album Tracks
- Intro (Live at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, Pa 1996)
- Good as She Could Be (Live at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, Pa 1996)
- You Must Go (Live at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, Pa 1996)
- Wrote It Down and Burned It (Live at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, Pa 1996)
- Ethylene (Live at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, Pa 1996)
- Your Love Is My Rest (Live at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, Pa 1996)
- Native Son (Live at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, Pa 1996)
- Walk On (Live at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, Pa 1996)
- Shredding the Document (Live at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, Pa 1996)
- Dust Down a Country Road (Live at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, Pa 1996)
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