Learn to Fly

you've got me living on pills and wistful advances

i’m learning to fly
through truck stops
and goodbyes.
i wish i could survive
without you by my side,
but i’m learning to see
you’re my dependency.
you’re the drug that i need,
i need you with me.

you got me living on pills
and wistful advances
you know how much i love
these secret romances.
you always tell me that i
gotta take chances
so take one with me
there’s no second chances.

i’m looking up to the sky,
lost in blue expanses,
and i’ve got you by my side
it’s time to take chances.
i pray to God i can fly,
now that there’s no second chances.

[but love said ‘no.’]

i feel like i’ve let you down
disappointed glances,
now you see the world―
there’s no rose-colored glasses,
i know that i’ve failed you
i’ll miss our midnight dances,
and now you see what you get
with no second chances.

i’m learning how to survive
through drugstores
and bad news,
it’s harder to live
without you by my side
but there’ll be
no more mistakes
‘cause i’ve learned my lesson
and i wish that i could fly
but there’s no second chances.

i know i’ve let you down,
there’s no other answers,
but i know that you miss
our midnight dances.
i know what to do,
and i’ll take my chances―
but you know what we’ll get
with no second chances.

oh, maybe it’s a mistake,
but i need you with me.
oh, baby it’s a mistake,
but we need to be free.
we can feel the ground shake,
so count to one, two, three.

we’ll kiss each other goodbye,
you said it’s time to take chances.
this time i know we will fly,
‘cause there’s no second chances.

Awards

4th place

Aug 4, 2010

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• Learn to Fly

Author's Note

fly along with me
i can't quite make it alone
try to make this life my own

and i'm looking to the sky to save me,
looking for a sign of life,
looking for something to help me
burn out bright.
and i'm looking for a complication,
looking 'cause i'm tired of lying.

make my way back home
where i learn to fly.

make my way back home
where i learn to...

Foo Fighters, Learn to Fly

Reviews

[NJ Miller]

First of all if you're tired of using chances you could always work in or change a few of them to opportunity or opportunities.

I have to say I like how the tone of the poem changes as it goes on. It seems like when you wrote it the dynamic with the love interest was changing. I think that makes it better then if you were just flat out telling the story of the relationship. :)

[Bridgette's Ink]

"I wish I could survive without you by my side but I'm learning to see you're my dependency"

Wow those lines took my breath away, just 4th place I thought it would be 1st. Really, really amazing.

[Bridgette's Ink]

"I wish I could survive without you by my side but I'm learning to see you're my dependency"

Wow those lines took my breath away, just 4th place I thought it would be 1st. Really, really amazing.

[.......]

This is wonderful, enjoyed this

[nono]

Nice this is beautiful I love it! And you entered it in another contest and got 4th not bad not bad at all! This is wonderful I really do wish I could learn to fly! Keep up the good work!

[Justina]

its beautiful!i can only imagine it as a song! the "chances" fit into it just fine. its what keeps it all together. well written my friend!

[Fabian G. Franklin]

This is song lyrics! Great stuff too, I enjoyed this! Sounds like it could be Paolo Nutini material. I think you might need a hook for your chorus to separate the stanzas but not necessarily.