Lynyrd Skynyrd Songs - All I Can Do Is Write About It Lyrics

Lynyrd Skynyrd - All I Can Do Is Write About It

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Album: Gimme Back My Bullets
Released: 1976

All I Can Do Is Write About It Lyrics

Well this life that I've lead has took me everywhere
There ain't no place I ain't never gone
But it's kind of like the saying that you heard so many times
Well there just ain't no place like home
Did you ever see a she-gator protect her young
Or a fish in a river swimming free
Did you ever see the beauty of the hills of Carolina
Or the sweetness of the grass in Tennessee
And lord I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes

Do you like to see a mountain stream a-flowin'
Do you like to see a young gun with his dog
Did you ever stop to think about, well, the air your breathin'
Well you better listen to my song
And lord I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes

I'm not tryin' to put down no big cities
But the things they write about us is just a bore
Well you can take a boy out of ol' dixieland
But you'll never take ol' Dixie from a boy
And lord I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes
'Cause I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes

Writer/s: VAN ZANT, RONNIE / COLLINS, ALLEN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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All I Can Do Is Write About It

This is an acoustic tune about Ronnie Van Zant's outlook on how things were changing around him and how he enjoyed the natural world and the laid-back honesty of the American South. It is probably about the growth of his hometown as he was cautioning about urban and suburban sprawl. This song helps refute the image of Lynyrd Skynyrd as just a bunch of racist rednecks.