Hero With A Wing-Robert Calvert

[ti:Hero With A Wing (2007 Digital Remaster)] [ar:Robert Calvert] [al:Captain Lockheed And The Starfighters] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hero With A Wing (2007 Digital Remaster) - Robert Calvert [00:15.50]I see myself a hero [00:18.18] [00:18.87]While one wings falls away [00:21.72] [00:22.55]And the dial approaches zero [00:25.16] [00:25.86]In a spiralling display [00:28.87] [00:29.53]My past life flashes feverishly [00:32.80]And lives I did not lead [00:35.39] [00:36.04]Like the time I was a hero [00:38.95] [00:39.65]Of a weird outlandish breed [00:43.97] [00:55.60]One arm of flesh and muscle [00:58.24] [00:58.89]And one of feathered scale [01:02.55]I was a hero with one wing [01:06.05]That was of no avail [01:09.35]I could only fly in circles [01:12.90]Like a corkscrew in the sky [01:15.72] [01:16.28]My one wing flapping frantically [01:19.58] [01:20.12]While birds just glided by [01:24.01] [01:33.13]I launched myself from mountains [01:36.29]And from the highest trees [01:39.19] [01:39.92]And though I could get nowhere [01:42.58] [01:43.12]Just landed on my knees [01:46.09] [01:46.61]But still I was a hero [01:49.95]With one wing more than most [01:52.38] [01:53.65]Almost half an Angel; [01:56.10] [01:56.66]A whirling holy ghost [02:01.01] [02:19.98]My father was an eagle [02:22.63] [02:23.15]With two wings wide as sails [02:26.21] [02:26.80]My mother was the west wind witch [02:30.42]With grasping finger nails [02:33.73]She lured him from his aerie [02:36.89]With her twittering device [02:39.75] [02:40.32]She kept him in a golden cage [02:43.89]And fed him field mice