Learning To Fly - Pink Floyd

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 - rich.

Propellers - fully forward.

Flaps - set - 10 degree.

Engine gauges and suction - check

Mixture set to maximum percent - recheck

Flight instruments

Altimeters - check both

(garbled word) - on

Navigation lights - 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): You may commence your takeoff, winds over 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