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"
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