Hero With A Wing Lyrics

Hero With A Wing lyrics

I see myself a hero

While one wings falls away

And the dial
approaches zero

In a spiralling display.

My past life flashes
feverishly,

And lives I did not lead,

Like the time I was a
hero

Of a weird, outlandish breed.



One arm of flesh and
muscle

And one of feathered scale

I was hero with one wing

That was of no avail.

I could only fly in circles

Like a
corkscrew in the sky,

My one wing flapping frantically

While birds
just glided by.



I launched myself from mountains

And from
the highest trees

And though I could get nowhere

Just landed on my
knees.

But still I was a hero,

With one wing more than most.

Almost half an Angel;

A whirling holy ghost.



My father was
an eagle

With two wings wide as sails

My mother was the west wind
witch

With grasping finger nails.

She lured him from his aerie

With her twittering device.

She kept him in a golden cage

And fed
him field mice.