Learning To Fly

Композиция британской прогрессив-рок-группы Pink Floyd из альбома 1987 года A Momentary Lapse of Reason, первого альбома, выпущенного группой в составе из трёх основных участников после ухода из неё Роджера Уотерса.

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 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 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



Friction lock - set.

Mixture - rich

Propellers - fully forward

Flaps - set - 10 degrees

Engine gauges and suction - check



Mixture set to maximum percent - recheck

Flight instruments...

Altimeters - check both

... lights - on

Pilot heater - on

Strobes - on

(to tower): Confirm 3-8-Echo ready

for departure

(tower): Hello again, this is now 129.4

(to tower): 129.4. It's to go.

(tower): 3-8-Echo cleared takeoff,

the wind's normal at 10 knots.

(to tower): 3-8-Echo

Easy on the brakes. Take it easy.

Its 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 skies

Tongue-tied and twisted just

an earth-bound misfit, I