Learning To Fly de Pink Floyd

Learning to Fly es una canción de la banda inglesa Pink Floyd, una de mis bandas favoritas. Corria el año 1987, cuando se editó el disco A Momentary Lapse of Reason, el decimoseptimo album de la banda, pero el primero sin su fundador el genial Roger Waters. De ese disco se desprende su track número 2, el fantastico Learning to Fly, escrito por David Gilmour, basado en la experiencia de Nick Mason (baterista de la banda) como aviador, de hecho, a la mitad del tema se puede apreciar una conversacion real de Nick con su instructor de vuelo. Años mas tarde, durante la grabacion de PULSE, se haria una version en vivo de esta hermosa canción y luego llegaria a mis oidos, para acompañarme de ahi en mas. Hoy, en mi primera entrada, con uds. la letra de Learning to Fly, de nada mas y nada menos que 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 skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound 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 earthbound misfit, I

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 earthbound misfit, I