It tells what was going through David’s mind when he became the new band leader and lyricist. If you listen to the song with this meaning, it’s and even greater song. “There’s no sensation that compares with this” is him standing on stage in front of a crowd. “Above the clouds I see my shadows fly” is him on stage in front of thousands of people.
“Above the planet on a wing and a prayer” is Gilmour in front of the huge crowd performing and hoping and praying he does ok and the crowd likes the new Pink Floyd music. Notice it’s written and spelled “soul in tension” not, “sole intention”.
#LEARNING TO FLY PINK FLOYD HOW TO#
“A soul in tension that’s learning to fly” is David learning how to write songs and lead the band. “No navigator to guide my way home” is not having a song writer anymore. “Ice is forming on the tips of my wings” is the tension between David and Roger. “Tongue tied and twisted just an Earth bound misfit” is Gilmour struggling to write lyrics. “Fatal attraction that’s holding me fast how can I escape this irresistible grasp” is Gilmour wanting so badly to keep making music under Pink Floyd. He wants to keep going and performing under Pink Floyd. And “stretched to the point of no turning back” is also ALL the music David helped Waters write and perform. “Standing alone all my senses reeled” is again Gilmour recording on a reel of tape.
“Ribbon of black stretched to the point of no turning back” is all the past animosity, and recordings they made together on a ribbon of recording tape.
This song is about Gilmour “learning to fly” in the band by himself. This is the first song/album Pink Floyd made after Waters left. In order to add confidence for this great step, they also engaged their historic designer Storm Thorgerson for the album cover (after 10 years), and for this occasion he also acted as director of the lucky video clip (winner in 1988 of an MTV Video Music Award as “Best Concept Video”, the only VMA of the entire group’s career).ĭespite the cold reception from critics, the album will sell very well, collecting gold and platinum records around the world.A lot of people think this song is simply about flying an airplane, but it’s not. Moreover, to start flying and getting out of the momentary troubles, great external collaborations joined what remained of Pink Floyd, starting with the return of one of the founding members of the group, Richard Wright. The text can also be seen as a metaphor for flying, starting new adventures exactly what was happening to the band after the separation from Waters.
#LEARNING TO FLY PINK FLOYD REGISTRATION#
At the time, in fact, he was taking the flight license and the typical message of apologies for the delay in registration was “I’m learning to fly”. The song tells of David Gilmour’s feelings about flying. This famous video shows a Native American initially intent on mowing grain after seeing a plane above him, he begins to have visions of a shaman and finally launches himself from a cliff, turning into an eagle to fly free. Of course we are talking about Pink Floyd and Learning to Fly, the first single from the album A Momentary Lapse of Reason, released in Spetember 1987. We, as Eighties’ Dinosaurs, went very often to a cinema during our weekends, and we began to enjoy the show starting from the very long queues outside the rooms, we took the ticket, maybe a coke and… all of a sudden ahe video clip of a beautiful song started, written by a group that had already given so much and now was starting again after the stormy departure of their cornerston, founder Roger Waters.
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