Wild in the Country

WILD IN THE COUNTRY

By Steve Sun and Michael Kosser

Copyright 2019
Gates Communications
Solar Lunar Music LLC

(1st VERSE)

You were born in a blaze on a hot day.
You were raised in the shade of a switch blade.
You were taught to survive with a forty-five.
And you burn like a flame in a hurricane.

(2nd VERSE)

You were fast on your feet but you got beat.
You were thrown in the hole by the State Patrol.
You were fine doin time but your real crime
was to maintain your pride on the inside.

(CHORUS)

And you been
WILD IN THE COUNTRY
Since the day you were born
WILD IN THE COUNTRY
Like a wild firestorm
WILD IN THE COUNTRY
No way to control
WILD IN THE COUNTRY
And wild in your soul



(3rd VERSE)

Now you’re back on the street and you’re set free.
And they showed you the way you can go straight.
But that’s not the path of the wild wind.
And the guards bet their pay you’ll be back in.

(4th VERSE)

There’s a girl on the porch with a four-ten
and she’s due any day and it’s your skin.
You may be wild and free but you can’t run
twice as fast as the blast of a shotgun.

(CHORUS)

And you been
WILD IN THE COUNTRY
Since the day you were born
WILD IN THE COUNTRY
Like a wild firestorm
WILD IN THE COUNTRY
No way to control
WILD IN THE COUNTRY
And wild in your soul

(BRIDGE)

Well they say it’s a wise man who knows when
all the cards in the deck are against him.
But you never slow down to ponder
what the odds or the gods got planned
down the road yonder.

(5th VERSE)

So you step on the pride in a hot ride,
leaving nothing behind but your tail-lights.
Ain’t no cage and no wage holds your breed.
You were born bustin free, running full-speed.

(CHORUS)

And you been
WILD IN THE COUNTRY
Since the day you were born
WILD IN THE COUNTRY
Like a wild firestorm
WILD IN THE COUNTRY
No way to control
WILD IN THE COUNTRY
And wild in your soul