Tag: freetofly
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Free To Fly
The story A peasant boy is trafficked to Renaissance Venice, where he gains extraordinary abilities through an encounter with a real mentor who initates him to the world. The philosophy The mentor figure represents one of mythology’s oldest archetypes: the older guide who transforms the young traveler through intimate transmission rather than instruction. Athena mentoring…
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Journey to “Free To Fly”
I. The Invitation Venice in the aftermath of the Biennale behaved like a city with a headache: the party was over, but nobody had cleared the glasses. Gallerists who had spent June saying darling to each other now crossed the campo in opposite directions, and the ones who didn’t cross fast enough had learned to…
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About “Free To Fly”
The Origin: A Farmhouse and a Feeling of Floating I originally wrote “Free to Fly” in the summer of 1994 or 1995 — the exact year has dissolved, which tells you something about how old this song is. The inspiration came from something else entirely: a three-month summer course I took in 1993. We stayed…
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Lyrics to “Free To Fly”
The summer heats the boy upOn the roofs of the city he hidesHe wanders by himself out and inMessages in the wind seem to call himOnly at nights he’s free to flyOnly at nights he’s free to flyAn open window, he gets closer to itWaits for your room to be litCrawling in your bedroomSliding between…