Skyline Pigeon - Live At The Royal Festival Hall

Good evening your Royal Highness, ladies and gentlemen
Well what the plan is tonight is we
We thought we'd do an evening of sort of nostalgia
Or semi-nostalgia and go back through some of our earlier albums
Starting with the first one which was Empty Sky
I'm just gon' take me ring off
And this one is a song which was the first song that Bernie and I ever really
Felt excited about that we ever wrote
And it's called Skyline Pigeon

Turn me loose from your hands
Let me fly to distant lands
Over green fields, trees and mountains
Flowers and forest fountains
Home along the lanes of the skyway
For this dark and lonely room
Projects a shadow cast in gloom
And my eyes are mirrors of the world outside
Thinking of the ways that the wind can turn the tide
And these shadows turn from purple into grey

For just a skyline pigeon, dreaming of the open
Waiting for the day that he can spead his wings
And fly away again

Fly away, skyline pigeon, fly
Toward the things you left so very far behind
Fly away, skyline pigeon, fly
Toward the dreams you left so very far behind

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 pealing 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

For just a skyline pigeon, dreaming of the open
Waiting for the day that he can spead his wings
And fly away again

Fly away, skyline pigeon, fly
Toward the things you left so very far behind
Fly away, skyline pigeon, fly
Toward the things you left so very
So very far behind

Thank you very much
Thank you