| Pink Floyd – Learning to Fly Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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part 2... midway through this verse my interpretation led me to think that he is talking about attempting to get out of the trip, this is shown in the lines "a soul in tension that's learning to fly condition grounded but determined to try" but after realising there is no way to release him from this trip so he continues to live it out and talks about his experiences from within the trip... lines that support this are ... "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" he talks about not being able to escape it and that it is an eternal state of mind "a dream unthreatened by the morning light" and talks about how he enjoys the state of mind and has grown to like it... "there's no sensation to compare with this suspended animation, a state of bliss" throughout the song the chorus reassures us that this state of mind is always there and he tries to not let it affect him but it always does... can't keep my mind from the circling sky and the second line talks about how he doesnt belong and he is different to everyone else... "tongue-tied & twisted just an earth-bound misfit" and this is my interpretation of this song any feedback or alternate interpretations are welcome... |
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| Pink Floyd – Learning to Fly Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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i highly doubt that this song is literally about flying. for starters pink floyd repeatively use metaphors in alot of their songs, so why would this one be different, and secondly all you have to do is have a read of the lyrics with an open mind and you realise that flying and the lyrics of this song have little in common, which is especially common in the chorus'tongue-tied & twisted just an earth-bound misfit' After reading the lyrics to this song i instantly thought of being under the influence of a drug, which wouldnt be uncommon for pink floyd to write a song about. but not everything matched up. so i read other peoples views on this song, which gave me ideas that it could be about love, suicide, death etc. but again not all the lyrics matched up i re-read the lyrics again with an open mind and really thought about what it could be about and came to the conclusion that i believe it is about being trapped in a trip. In the opening verse the lyrics are talking about first taking the trip and realising you are stuck in the trip..consider the lines "a fatal attraction holding me fast, how can I escape this irresistable grasp?" and "Into the distance, a ribbon of black stretched to the point of no turning back" it then goes onto talking about the realisation of being actually stuck in the trip, shown by the lines "unheeded warnings, I tought I thought of everything no navigator to guide my way home unladened, empty and turned to stone" part 1 |
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