Lyrics:

The Followills come from Talihina, a small town in the American South. This song (featured at the end of the documentary ‘Talihina Sky’) relates their negative feelings towards their hometown.
Weeds blow tall on the broken train tracks
Ruby draws, we're fixin' to get high
Maybe we'll hit the bluffs and find ourselves the same old rum

But everybody says this place is beautiful
And you'd be so crazy to say goodbye
But everything's the same, this town is pitiful
And I'll be gettin' out as soon as I can fly

Life goes by
On a Talihina sky

The hopped up boys are lookin' for their trouble
The knocked up girls, well, they've all got their share
Ruby seems out of her mind, swears she won't give in this time

But everybody says this place is beautiful
And you'd be so crazy to say goodbye
But everything's the same, this town is pitiful
And I'll be gettin' out as soon as I can fly

Life goes by
On a Talihina sky
Life goes by
On a Talihina sky


But everybody says this place is beautiful
And you'd be so crazy to say goodbye
But everything's the same, this towns grown pitiful
And I'll be getting out as soon as I can fly

Life goes by
On a Talihina sky
Life goes by
On a Talihina sky