Re: 10yrs lyric

["Williams, Chris (RSCH)" <Chris_Williams@xxxxxx>]

PV wrote:

> The accepted lyric, it seems, is:
>   Flying skies of fortune each our separate ways,
>   On the wings of maybe down in birds of prey.
> 
> After listening to the LP, the remastered CDs, and many 1977
performances,
> I think the lyric is actually:
>   Flying skies of fortune each our separate way,
>   On the wings of maybe, doubting birds of prey.
> 

zeppelin@xxxxxxxxxxx then wrote:

I have another version of this:
	Blind stars of fortune, each have several rays
	On the wings of maybe, downing birds of prey

On lyrical matters I have always preferred to defer to the experts ;-).
However, I've always (and, again, a few minutes ago) heard the lines as:

Blind skys of fortune. Each have separate ways.
On the wings of maybe. Downing birds of prey.

Both lines make make sense in the context of the song. For me, the first
suggests that fortune is dumb; we cannot know it in advance. The second,
that it's fragile.

My 2 cents:

Chris Williams
chris_williams@xxxxxx