Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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High Wings track 2. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:

On the wings, on the wings of a dream she flies
On the wings, on the wings of a dream she flies
West with the night

Through the brightness of the tropical day and the bane of the tropical night,
No twilight exists to bolster the way between day and the blackest of night
A friend has gone down and nobody knows where, and the message comes in then
Of a miner needing medical care, and it's off through the night again

On the wings, on the wings of a dream she flies
On the wings, on the wings of a dream she flies
Through the dark night

So it's out into the loneliest place that a pilot will ever know
Into the night without a face, where no sane person would go
No beacon to guide her and no one beside her, and when she sets down at the end
She's left to wonder if there's enough room to ever take off again

On the wings, on the wings of a dream she flies
On the wings, on the wings of a dream she flies
To save a life

Through the bright days and the darkest of nights, over desert and plain she flew
Carrying mail or scouting the hunt or whatever they asked her to do
A quarter of a million miles, they say, is the total she had flown
When she made the historic decision that day to fly the Atlantic alone

The silver, blue, and turquoise Gull lifts rebelliously into the sky
Heavy with fuel and one woman's dream, no chance now to ever ask why
Fly against the wind

On the wings, on the wings of a dream she flies
On the wings, on the wings of a dream she flies
West with the night