Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly
Album: A Momentary Lapse Of Reason '1987, Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd '2001

Lyrics:
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 find 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

Friction lock Set Mixture is rich
Propellers Strobes on
Confirm 3-8 Echo ready for departure
Hello again, this is now 129.4
129.4, stick up (stick it up, more likely)
You make commence your take-off, winds over 10 knots
Ready to action.
Easy on the brakes. Take it easy, it's gonna roll this time
Just hand the power gradually, and it...

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


written by David Gilmour, Anthony Moore, Bob Ezrin