Someone somewhere bought a brand new rifle

Pointed at a man holding a Bible

So sad you won’t believe it

But I swear to God I’ve seen it

Right there on a TV screen

Shooting stars, all burning up the night sky

Something someone sees once in a lifetime

You gotta look on up 'fore it’s gone

But damn if we ain’t fixed on

A good-for-nothing cellphone screen

See the world, take it in, catch a sunrise

With your own eyes

I wanna drive, wanna run till the wires run out

I need to heal, need to feel like I’m alive right now

Pull the plug, just shatter the glass

Make it stop, these days under a rock doesn’t sound half bad

Put me alone, singing ‘long to a Red Bird song

I wanna live like they did in the great unknown

Yeah, if you need me I’ll be watching the storm

Somewhere from a chair, just staring through a back porch

Screen

A baseball getting dusty at a Walmart

Could send a kid all the way to Wrigley ballpark

Might be a hall-of-fame one

The whole-world-knows-his-name one

But he’d rather hit a homerun on a screen

I wanna drive, wanna run till the wires run out

I need to heal, need to feel like I’m alive right now

Pull the plug, just shatter the glass

Make it stop, these days under a rock doesn’t sound half bad

Put me alone, singing ‘long to a Red Bird song

I wanna live like they did in the great unknown

Yeah, if you need me, I’ll be watching the storm

Somewhere from a chair, just staring through a back porch screen

Take a good look out the window

Keep it in your pocket at the rock show

Just give it a try

Every battery does but your memory will never die

I wanna drive, wanna run till the wires run out

I need to heal, need to feel like I’m alive right now

Pull the plug, just shatter the glass

Make it stop, these days under a rock doesn’t sound half bad

Put me alone, singing ‘long to a Red Bird song

I wanna live like they did in the great unknown

Yeah, if you need me I’ll be watching the storm

Somewhere from a chair, just staring through a back porch

Screen

Yeah, through a back porch screen

See the world, take it in, catch a sunrise

With your own eyes