D# Verse: D# A# Turn me loose from your hands G# A#7 D# Let me fly....to distant lands F7 G# Over green fields trees and mountains D# A#7 D# Flowers....and forest, fontains G# A#7 D# Home along the line of the skyway D# A# For this dark and lonely room G# A#7 D# projects a sha..dow castinʼ gloom F7 G# And my eyes are mirrors of the world outside D# Thinking of the way A#7 D# that the wind can turn the side Pre-chorus: G# A#7 D# And these shadows turn from purple into grey G# A#7 For just a skyline pigeon dreaming D# of the open, wainting for the day G# A#7 D# He can spread his wings and fly away again Chorus: G7 Cm D7 Gm Fly away, skyline pigeon fly G# towards the dreams youʼve left so D# A#7 D# very far behind Verse: D# Just let me wake up in the morning A# To the smell of new-mown hay G# A#7 D# to laugh and cry to live and die In the brightness of my day D#7 I want to hear the peeling bells of distant G# D# churches sing / But most of all please A#7 D# free me from this aching metal ring G# A#7 D# And open out this cage towards the sun. Pre-chorus. Chorus. 2x
