Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly (Official Video With Lyrics)

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

[marytown]

When my brother told me he was in hospice for pancreatic cancer and he was done I asked God for a song for him and this was played on my radio on my way home from work. I knew this was perfect and I dedicate this song to him. He died 3 weeks later. ❤️

[DebbieHaynes-bj]

One of the BEST songs ever by one of the best bands of all time. Rock on!

[mohammedsalimalami]

Frankly speaking, British singing is unparalleled in the world, but the Pink Floyd group is from another planet

[seamansmith]

Столько лет слушаю эту великолепную вещь! И не могу насладиться...

[ivanjerez]

There are two types of people in the world...Those who think Pink Floyd is awesome, and those who are wrong.
Thank you for sharing brother...

[bobdunagan]

I was a confused, angry scared kid when I found out I was going to be a dad. This song let me know you were coming, and that I had to get my shit together. There's no sensation to compare with this is so fitting for your birth. I love you so much kt bug. You are a beatiful, kind creature sent here to save me. You gave me purpose. Love you always. Daddy.

[vargasclan]

My step daughter passed on due to suicide. I play this song for her every time we celebrate her birthday which is today. We miss her dearly, gone too soon. ❤️‍🩹

[laurenbholcombii]

Cheers to you dad. You are missed dearly and it’s been two years. I wasn’t ready but you were and I respect that. You’ve learned to fly. ❤️

[MrAnnymus]

For a long time I thought this song was a metaphor for something profound. Then I heard David Gilmour say it was literally about him taking flying lessons. 😅 Still a great tune.

[fearsomename]

Just another Pink Floyd masterpiece. It's like poetry in motion.

[amyparkhurst]

Just shared this for my uncle Dusty. He loved Floyd, as do I, and he passed a few days ago. He's not an earth bound misfit anymore.
I know you're flying, Unc. 💝🕊

[erick_solar]

The lyrics combined with the video makes this a human masterpiece.

[kennethmarquez]

I never tired to Listening to all songs of Pink Floyd and especially this another masterpiece of my heavy rock band in New Year 2024 and New Song from Pink Floyd forever and ever…

[pauloftarsus]

Tongue tied and twisted, just an earth bound misfit..."I"

[majaper]

i just want this song to be played on my funreal 🥺 literally ❤️

[francescaamato]

This is one of the best songs of Pink Floyd!

[andyjohnson]

Music isn't the same today. Damn I miss the 80's and 90's. Great music, with meaning

[shikhanshu]

perhaps the most beautiful lyrics ever written

[johnterry]

I soled to this song back in 1998 in N73C. Flying a plane by yourself for the first time is perfectly summed up with this song.

[ProfGlitch]

for years i always thought this song was a metaphor for psychedelics or cannabis (etc) but literally just now i deduced what this actually is about -- death -- and i am so much more heavily affected by this than almost any other song i have ever interpreted.