SKYLINE PIGEON (Elton John)

    Turn me loose from your hands
    Let me fly to distant lands
    Over green fields, trees and mountains
    Flowers and forest fountains
    Home along the lanes of the skyway

    For this dark and lonely room
    Projects a shadow cast in gloom
    And my eyes are mirrors
    Of the world outside
    Thinking of the ways
    That the wind can turn the tide
    And these shadows turn
    From purple into gray

    For just a Skyline Pigeon
    Dreaming of the open
    Waiting for the day
    And he can spread his wings
    And fly away again
    Fly away, skyline pigeon fly
    Towards the dreams
    You've left so very far behind
    Fly away, skyline pigeon fly
    Towards the dreams
    You've left so very far behind

    Let me wake up in the morning
    To the smell of new mown hay
    To laugh and cry, to live and die
    In the brightness of my day
    I wanna hear the pealing bells
    Of distant churches sing
    But most of all please free me
    From this aching metal ring
    And open out this cage towards the sun

    For just a Skyline Pigeon
    Dreaming of the open
    Waiting for the day
     And he can spread his wings
     And fly away again
     Fly away, skyline pigeon fly
     Towards the dreams
     You've left so very far behind
     Fly away, skyline pigeon fly
     Towards the dreams
     You've left so very, so very far behind


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