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truepennySo, on the way to my dressage lesson, the radio played Foo Fighters' "Learn to Fly," and I started wondering. How many songs are there with that title (for these purposes, we also count "Learning to Fly"), and would they make a good mix CD*?
I can think of four:
1. Foo Fighters, "Learn to Fly"
2. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, "Learning to Fly"
3. Pink Floyd, "Learning to Fly"
4. Joe Rathbone, "Learning to Fly"
(If you want to expand into songs that talk about learning to fly in the lyrics, like the INXS song I quoted in the subject line, that's okay, too.)
5. INXS, "Never Tear Us Apart"
Others?
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*If I personally were to make such a mix, it would have to include my favorite song about flying, Kris Delmhorst's "Little Wings," but that's a song about what you do after you've learned to fly.
I can think of four:
1. Foo Fighters, "Learn to Fly"
2. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, "Learning to Fly"
3. Pink Floyd, "Learning to Fly"
4. Joe Rathbone, "Learning to Fly"
(If you want to expand into songs that talk about learning to fly in the lyrics, like the INXS song I quoted in the subject line, that's okay, too.)
5. INXS, "Never Tear Us Apart"
Others?
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*If I personally were to make such a mix, it would have to include my favorite song about flying, Kris Delmhorst's "Little Wings," but that's a song about what you do after you've learned to fly.
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Date: 2011-01-12 02:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-12 02:42 am (UTC)"defying gravity" from Wicked is less memorable (for me, anyway) but I seem to recall that she sings it while learning to fly.
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Date: 2011-01-12 03:08 am (UTC)Sugar, "Gee Angel" (that one would be on my mix, anyway)
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Date: 2011-01-12 03:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-12 04:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-12 04:19 am (UTC)In a sky full of people only some want to fly
Isn't that crazy
In a world full of people only some want to fly
Isn't that crazy
Crazy
In a heaven of people there's only some want to fly
Ain't that crazy
I love that.
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Date: 2011-01-12 05:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-12 08:49 am (UTC)One of these days
You're going to rise up singing
You'll spread your wings
And take to the sky
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Date: 2011-01-12 08:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-12 09:46 am (UTC)Mostly apropos, my iTunes also contains LOTS of songs about flying using a paper object. I have Paper Plane by Persephone's Bees, Paper Airplanes by AFI, and three songs called Paper Wings, by Cheri Knight, Gillian Welch, and Rise Against. (And I know but don't have Paper Planes by MIA.)
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Date: 2011-01-12 09:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-12 12:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-12 12:37 pm (UTC)Imagine you're a girl
On ten-mile stilts.
You travel round the world, taking it all in.
You'll never touch the ground.
Is it a blessing or a curse?
And if you're too high to be found,
are you lost or just rehearsed?
To The Broader List,
Date: 2011-01-12 04:17 pm (UTC)The Kinks' "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman"
Lenny Kravitz's "Fly Away"
Lyle Lovett's "Flyin' Shoes"
the gospel song "I'll Fly Away" (I like Alison Krauss's rendition for the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack.)
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Date: 2011-01-12 04:26 pm (UTC)Oyster Band has one called "Milford Haven", lyrics here:
http://bob.bofh.org/~giolla/oysterband/MH.html
and Talking Heads alludes to a woman flying away in "And She Was", which I know is on Little Creatures among other albums.
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Date: 2011-01-12 06:03 pm (UTC)Mr. Mister - Broken Wings (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWyeVfuolT4)
Elton John - Someone Saved My Life Tonight (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR7a0Gm379E) (listen for the chorus)
Steve Miller Band - Jet Airliner (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGF_0AcHaGs) Fly Like An Eagle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zT4Y-QNdto)
Joni Mitchell/Nazareth - This Flight Tonight 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTfB8Q6DpZ0) 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTfB8Q6DpZ0)
Thomas Dolby - Flying North (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpWy5cN9sfw) Budapest by Blimp (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_6EE9y1f3U)
I could probably do this all day. Flight metaphors have been a bit of a perverse attraction to me for some time.
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Date: 2011-01-12 08:35 pm (UTC)Mary Chapin Carpenter, "Why Walk When You Can Fly"
Namoli Brennet, "Trying to Fly"
Patty Griffin's, "Let Him Fly" is unfortunately the inverse song, as is Dar Williams's "Closer to Me".
---L.
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Date: 2011-01-13 02:10 pm (UTC)Unfortunately, the only suggestion that I have is "I Can Fly" from Final Fantasy X's soundtrack as well as a few others whose titles clearly indicate that said person has already learned how to fly.
Wings though... as long as you don't mind them broken, lost or stolen, I've got plenty of those.