Learning to Fly - Live

Into the distance, a ribbon of black
 Stretched to the point of no turning back
 A flight of fancy on a wind swept 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 sky
 Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound 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 earth-bound misfit, I
 Friction lock, set
 Mixtures, rich
 Propellers, fully forward
 Flaps, set - 10 degrees
 Engine gauges and suction, check
 Above the planet on a wing and a prayer
 My grubby halo, a vapor 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 sky
 Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I