Learning To Fly

Pink Floyd

   Into the distance, a ribbon of black
   Stretched to the point of no turning back
   A flight of fancy on a windswept field
   Standing alone my senses reeled
   A fatal attraction is holding me fast, how
   Can I escape this irresistible grasp?
   
   Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky
   Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I...
   
   
   Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
   Unheeded warnings, I thought I thought of everything
   No navigator to guide my way home
   Unladened, empty and turned to stone
   
   A soul in tension that's learning to fly
   Condition grounded but determined to try
   Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
   Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I...
   
   
   Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,
   My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air,
   Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
   Out of the corner of my watering eye
   A dream unthreatened by the morning light
   Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night
   
   There's no sensation to Amicompare with this
   Suspended animation, a state of bliss
   Can't keep my mind from the circling skies
   Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I...