Pink Floyd - Learning to fly (1987 Song Category)

Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back

Flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone, my senses reel

Fatal attraction that's holding me fast
Now, can't escape this irresistible grasp

Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky
Tongue-tied and twisted; just an earth-bound misfit, I

Solo

Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings, I thought I thought of everything

No navigator to find my way home
Unladen, empty, and turned to stone

A soul in tension that's learning to fly
Condition: grounded - determined to try
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted; just an earth-bound misfit, I

Interlude







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 compare with this
Suspended animation - a state of bliss
Can't keep my mind from the circling sky
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I