C# Verse: C# G# Turn me loose from your hands F# G#7 C# Let me fly....to distant lands D#7 F# Over green fields trees and mountains C# G#7 C# Flowers....and forest, fontains F# G#7 C# Home along the line of the skyway C# G# For this dark and lonely room F# G#7 C# projects a sha..dow castinʼ gloom D#7 F# And my eyes are mirrors of the world outside C# Thinking of the way G#7 C# that the wind can turn the side Pre-chorus: F# G#7 C# And these shadows turn from purple into grey F# G#7 For just a skyline pigeon dreaming C# of the open, wainting for the day F# G#7 C# He can spread his wings and fly away again Chorus: F7 A#m C7 Fm Fly away, skyline pigeon fly F# towards the dreams youʼve left so C# G#7 C# very far behind Verse: C# Just let me wake up in the morning G# To the smell of new-mown hay F# G#7 C# to laugh and cry to live and die In the brightness of my day C#7 I want to hear the peeling bells of distant F# C# churches sing / But most of all please G#7 C# free me from this aching metal ring F# G#7 C# And open out this cage towards the sun. Pre-chorus. Chorus. 2x
