Risk of Flight

So takeoff
You takeoff

Drive your wings into the air
I hope the hollow in our bones can keep you safe from sticks and stones

Its the front and not the end, there is still power to ascend
But if you turn your head around you'll crash quickly to the ground

So takeoff you takeoff
No matter what the others say

Better to have flown and crashed than to let life slip away.

What we feel, what we see.
There is no guarantee.
Your a bird and not a stone
Flights risks already known.

So takeoff, you takeoff
Give it everything you have.
Our life is in our efforts,
Some are good and some are bad.

Your light and your fast
But need wind to make your way
Now all that's left is work
And the memory of the play.

I say takeoff, you takeoff
Cause your gifted with the wing

I guess I'll sit here on the ground
Having known the finest thing