Lyrics

Hard as the knocks, the knocks that formed him
Stubborn as the tangled hair of the horse that bucked him

You could learn a thing or two about grit if you dared look him in the eye
You could hear the bucket gone empty from the timbre of his sigh at the end of a night

He always wanted to fly
He always wanted to find the ocean

He thought about the finite days and the lives he didn’t lead
They always took him as he looked, so nobody ever believed

He was born a free man but somehow that never quite felt true
There’s more to raising a man than just giving him a roof and a pair of shoes

He always wanted to fly
He always wanted to find the ocean

He could feel the breeze, when it was telling him to move on
He didn’t like to overstay, he’d be a burden to no one

He didn’t plan to grow old, he’ll just walk straight into the wild
Simple as he came, no axe to grind, nothing to hide, nothing to fight

He always wanted to fly
He always wanted to find
He always wanted to fly
He always wanted to find the ocean