Tom:
Turn me loose from your hands
Let me fly....to distant lands
Over green fields trees and mountains
Flowers....and forest, fontains
Home along the line of the skyway
For this dark and lonely room
projects a sha..dow castin' gloom
And my eyes are mirrors of the world outside
Thinking of the way
that the wind can turn the side
REFRAIN:
And these shadows turn from purple into grey
For just a skyline pigeon dreaming
of the open, wainting for the day
He can spread his wings and fly away again
CHORUS:
Fly away, skyline pigeon fly
towards the dreams you've left so
very far behind
VERSE:
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 want to hear the peeling 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 .
Repeat refrain
Repeat chorus 2x