Skyline Pigeon

(Elton John -Bernie Toupin)

Let me fly to distant lands

Turn me loose from your hands

Over green fields, trees and mountains

Flowers and forest fountains

Home along the lanes of the skyway

Projects a shadow cast

in gloom

For this dark and lonely room

Thinking of the way

Of the world outside

And my eyes are mirrors

From purple into grey

And these shadows turn

That the wind can turn the tide

Dreaming of the open

For just a Skyline Pigeon

And fly away again

He can spread his wings

Waiting for the day

You 've left so very far behind

Towards the dreams

Fly away skyline pigeon fly

To the smell of new mown hay

Just let me wake up in the morning

In the brightness of my day

To laugh and cry, to live and die

Of distant churches sing

I want to hear the pealing bells

From this aching metal ring

But most of all please free me

And open out this cage towards the sun

Dreaming of the open

For just a Skyline Pigeon

And fly away again

He can spread his wings

Waiting for the day

You 've left so very far behind

Towards the dreams

Fly away skyline pigeon fly

Skyline Pigeon

(Elton John -Bernie Toupin)