Just like a birdie, I just wanna fly free, so high, so high   And own a piece of land   Somewhere, somewhere off in the country   Oh, oh yeah, listen, yeah      Temperature's like a hundred degrees   Like I got chains on me   Blackmail and a family of three   Been right on my destiny      Rake it out fly way   'Cuz it's too much for the man   Shouldn'ta gone down this way   What happened to my master plan      'Cuz I can't figure out   I coulda been a love child   Shouldn'ta gone down this way   Tell me, how did I get life?      Life, life, life, life   Life, life, life, life   Life, life, life, life   Life, life, life, life      Oh, somebody done done me wrong   My eyes to the ceiling all night long   Time is slippin' away from me   And it ain't no tellin' when I get home   I gotta get home, yeah      Just about to see the dollar sign   That's close to a piece of mind   and everything was about to be fine   So tell me, so how'd I get life?      Life, life, life, life   Life, life, life, life   Life, life, life, life   Life, life, life, life      Everything that I hoped for is gone now   Buried in the ground   Hopes and dreams and all those things   I'll never see, said I'll never see      Life, life, life, life   Life, life, life, life   Life, life, life, life   ....