Ran across a friend of mine

Hadn't seen since eleventh grade

Saw our name on the marquie sign

And stopped in to see us play



He said, man it's been a few years

I said, man, they'll let anybody in here

We sat and talked of rebel days gone by

And we laughed of how our dreams of California

Never got much past the county line

We drank a toast to long lost friends

And all those crazy things we did



It was freebird in a firebird

On the way up Hawthorne road

Long necks, long hair

Wild eyed girls and rock and roll

Play the drum set on the dance floor

Lighters held up for the encore

And not a worry in that southern summer sky

And we let that freebird fly



He said, man it's funny

How that time is bound to race

And how you'd give back your right arm

To get back just a day



Or retaste your first teenage kiss

Feel them backroads turn and twist

Seeing nothing but dust in your rearview



There wasn't a car in our town any faster

Now yesterday's just rusting in my pasture

We were too big, the town was too small

But looking back we had it all



Singing freebird in a firebird

On the way up Hawthorne road

Long necks, long hair

Wild eyed girls and rock and roll

Play the drum set on the dance floor

Lighters held up for the encore

And not a worry in that southern summer sky

And we let that freebird fly



[Instrumental Interlude]



It was freebird in a firebird

On the way up Hawthorne road

Long necks, long hair

Wild eyed girls and rock and roll

Play the drum set on the dance floor

Lighters held up for the encore

And not a worry in that southern summer sky

And we let that freebird fly

Let that freebird fly

Fly on freebird