Artist/Band: 
Pink Floyd 
Lyrics for Song: Learning To Fly 
Lyrics for Album: A Foot In The Door: The Best Of Pink Floyd [2011]
  
               
  21624>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 holding me fast
  How can I escape this irresistible grasp?
 
 
  Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
  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, rich
  Propellers, fully forward
  Flaps, set, 10 degrees
  Engine gauges and suction, check
 
 
  Mixture set to maximum percent, recheck
  Altimeters, check both
  Navigation lights, on
  Strobes, on
 
 
  Confirm 3-8-Echo ready for departure
  Hello again, this is now 129.4
  129.4. It's to go.
  You may commence your takeoff, winds over 10 knots
  3-8-Echo
  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 vapor 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 skies
  Tongue-tied and twisted
  Just an earth-bound misfit, I
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