Hero With A Wing Lyrics - Captain Lockheed And The Starfighters - Robert Calvert

I see myself a hero while one wing falls away 

And the dial approaches zero in a spiraling 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 a hero with a 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 

Although I could get nowhere and 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