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 senses 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
   Unladen, 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 sky
     Tongue-tied & twisted just an earth bound misfit, I
   
   Above the planet on a wind 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 eyes from the circling sky
     Tongue-tied & twisted just an earth bound misfit, I
   
   Pink Floyd, "Learning to Fly" 
from "A Momentary Lapse of Reason"