Pink Floyd
Learning To Fly
A Momentary Lapse Of Reason (1987)

G  G A/G  G  /b  E5  e!    D/A D/A Em7  x 2

Into the distance a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled

  A fatal attraction is holding me fast how
      E5                                     e  d  (C5)
  How can I escape this irresistible grasp?                 

    C5                 b        A5             g  
    Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
    F                               C           D
    Tongue tied and twisted just an earth bound misfit, I

G  /A G  b  Em    D  w/ solo

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  w/ (ahh)
    Condition grounded but determined to try                fin: w/o D

    Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
    Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I

(f  f)    (f  f)  x 4  
                                w/ discussion de décollage & mini-solo        
(A  A)  (A  A)  (D  D)  (D  D)

g                                       d (e)                  (basse)
Above the planet on a wing and a prayer
e
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

  g                                         d (e)
  A dream unthreatened by the morning light
  e                                                        \e  d  (c)
  Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night

  There's no sensation to compare with this                  (normal)
  Suspended animation, a state of bliss                    fin: w/o D

  Can't keep my mind from the circling skies
  Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I

G  G A/G  G  /b  E5  e!    D/A D/A Em7  x 4  w/ solo

(fade out)

(goto The Dogs Of War)