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 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 sha___dow cast in gloom

 And my eyes are mirrors

 Of the world outside

 Thinking of the way

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

 He can spread his wings

 And fly away again

 Fly away skyline pigeon fly

 Towards the dreams

 You've left so very far behind

 Fly away skyline pigeon fly

 Towards the dreams

 You've left so very far behind

 Just 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

 He can spread his wings

 And fly away again

 Fly away skyline pigeon fly

 Towards the dreams

 You've left so very far behind

 Fly away skyline pigeon fly

 Towards the dreams

 You've left so very, so very far behi_____nd.

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