John Denver Flight (the Higher We Fly) Lyrics

Flight (the Higher We Fly) Lyrics

This song was first released on the Its About Time album. It is the only album
it has been released on.


Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of
Earth
And danced the sky on laughter silvered wings
Sunward Ive climbed
and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds and done a hundred
things
Ive wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit
silence
Hovering there Ive chased the shouting winds aloft
And flung my
eager craft through footless halls of air

The higher we fly, the farther
we go
The closer we are to each other
The darker the night, the brighter
the star
In peace go my sisters and brothers

Up, up, the long
delirious burning blue
Ive topped the wind-swept heights with easy
grace
Where never lark nor even eagle flew
And while with silent lifting
mind I trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space
Put out my hand and
touched the face of God

The higher we fly, the farther we go
The
closer we are to each other
The darker the night, the brighter the
star
In peace go my sisters and brothers

Words by Gillespie Magee
Jr., John Denver and Joe Henry
Music by Lee Holdridge
Adopted from the
Poem by John Gillespie Magee Jr.