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A Flight of Fancy

from Push the Button by Dave Bradley

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I came with the refrain for this song while taking a long walk under a pristine blue sky out in the countryside with my dog and watching the birds doing their thing.

It only occurred to me recently that the lyrics might have emerged from my subconscious as a metamorphosis of the Richard Bach story "Jonathan Livingston Seagull", which I read 30 years ago as an impressionable teen.

Originally, I thought it was a defence of our nomadic urges, the need to travel, to migrate...maybe it is...

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A Flight of Fancy

A flight of fancy, just spread your wings
Takes you on the way to better things
The working day, working away
It's not easy, back-breaking, low pay

A flight of fancy, can change your life
Rue the higher plain, more play, less strife
Out of your comfort zone, and into the blue
A chance you have to take, you know what to do

A flight of fancy, just take your time
Reach for the skies again, it's a slower climb

A million migrant flyers, since times of old
Flying the distance, just to escape the cold

In life many questions, and flight holds the clue
Take to the skies again, to find out what is true
I capture the answer, but didn't think it through
In flight there are questions, and an ending of blue

A million migrant flyers, take epochs of old
Flying the distance, just to escape the crushing cold

A flight of fancy, just spread your wings
Takes you on the way, to better things

credits

from Push the Button, released June 6, 2016
Words and Music by David Bradley
Vocals and guitar by David Bradley
Ambience by @MonoStone-1

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Dave Bradley UK

Guitarist, singer-songwriter. Acoustic and electric indie pop and rock originals. Singer, guitarist with C5, bigMouth, TyrannoChorus, CTW, with DJ Ad, and BarbD

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