Lyrics - The Wildest Wish To Fly by Hine Rupert

I was not the fighter
So
I should not want for shelter
With helpless ears
I hear again
That even more are dead
Than anyone has ever said
I was not the fighter
Still the echoes of their gunfire
Penetrate my sleepy state
And
I am walking in the shadow
Of a man
I cannot see
CHORUS:
How could the boy so in love with war planes
Have seen his first flight shot down in flames
He was just a dreamer
With the wildest wish to fly
I was not the fighter
No one shoots to spill my blood
But while this night rages so violently
The hawk circles above
And he was just a dreamer
With a conscience and in love
He wore his wings just like a crown
Yet still they shot him down
CHORUSFramed inside the doorway
And there's someone much like me
A shadow of the man he used to be
Have young men ever understood
The games old men will play
Was there anyone left with him today
CHORUS------------------------------
Guitar:
PHIL
PALMERCoda
Vocals:
ROBERT
PALMERBottles:
OLLIE
W.
TAYLERThe
Wildest
Wish
To
Fly is dedicated to
Lt.
R.
N.
Nicholas
Taylor

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