The Wildest Wish To Fly Lyrics - Singles - 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 

CHORUS 

Framed 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 

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Guitar: PHIL PALMER 

Coda Vocals: ROBERT PALMER 

Bottles: OLLIE W. TAYLER 

The Wildest Wish To Fly is dedicated to Lt. R. N. Nicholas Taylor