Alison Krauss and Union Station - Never Got Off The Ground lyrics

Never Got Off the Ground My father was a farmer But his head was in the sky He worked every day but Sunday 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 That we will do great things Me, I used to have a hunger To wear a pilot But the circles that I ran in Turned my head around And the planes I had my plans in Never got off the ground Don You hear so many say The higher they get, The closer they are to flyin Fly away Don You hear so many say The higher they get, The closer they are to flyin They say there but for fortune Is the way it would have been If we could take a bigger portion We could fill our hands again You see them on the sidewalk In the parks all over town Those who Never got off the ground