Skyline Pigeon

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 way 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

He can spread his wings, 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

Just 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 this skyline pigeon dreaming of the open, waiting for the day

He can spread his wings and fly away again

Fly away, skyline pigeon, fly

Towards the things you've left so very far behind

Fly away, skyline pigeon, fly

Towards the things you've left so very, so very far behind