Linda Ronstadt - Wildflowers

Trio / 1987-11-01 1. The Pain of Loving You 2. Making Plans 3. To Know Him Is To Love Him 4. Hobo's Meditation 5. Wildflowers 6. Telling Me Lies 7. My Dear Companion 8. Those Memories of You 9. I've Had Enough 10. Rosewood Casket 11. Farther Along

Wildflowers

written by Dolly Parton
© 1986 Velvet Apple Music

The hills were alive with wildflowers and I
Was as wild, even wilder than they
For at least I could run
They just died in the sun
And I refused to just wither in place

Just a wild mountain rose
Needing freedom to grow
So I ran fearing not where I'd go
When a flower grows wild
It can always survive
Wildflowers don't care where they grow

And the flowers I knew
In the fields where I grew
Were content to be lost in the crowd
They were common and close
I had no room for growth
And I wanted so much to branch out

So I uprooted myself from home ground and left
Took my dreams and I took to the road
When a flower grows wild
It can always survive
Wildflowers don't care where they grow

I grew up fast and wild
And I never felt right
In a garden so different from me
I just never belonged
I just longed to be gone
So the garden one day set me free

I hitched a ride with the wind
And since he was my friend
I just let him decide where we'd go
When a flower grows wild
It can always survive
Wildflowers don't care where they grow

Just a wild rambling rose seeking mysteries untold
No regret for the path that I chose
When a flower grows wild
It can always survive
Wildflowers don't care where they grow