Pink Floyd

Learning To Fly
Into the distance, a ribbon of black, stretched to the point of no turning back. a flight of fancy on a wind swept field, standing alone my sense reeled. a fatal attraction, holding me fast, how can I escape this irresistable grasp? Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, tongue-tied 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 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 compare with this suspended animation, a state of bliss Can't keep my mind from the circling sky tongue-tied twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I Aus Songtexte Mania