Re: PV speaks

["Kristopfer P. Krueger" <kkrug0@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>
>**Second, on Ten Years Gone - I propose a lyric that I haven't seen
>anywhere.  It seems so obvious though, that I'm sure *someone* has brought
>it up.
>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.
>
>This certainly makes more grammatical sense, in the case of "way" versus
>"ways", and the metaphor works better for the second line.  What the hell
>would "down in birds of prey" mean anyway?
>
>You disagree with me?  Go listen again to the song in studio and live
>first, then disagree.
>

I disagree with both these interpretations.  I think it is:

On the wings of maybe, downy birds of prey.


This makes more sense when keeping in mind the whole "bird of prey"
metaphor because, as the eagle leaves the nest, it would still
be a "downy" bird of prey, or young.


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