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Take These Broken Wings and Learn to Fly Again Lyrics

1985 song

"Broken Wings"
Broken Wings single cover.jpg

One of non-US picture sleeves, mostly for some European countries
Single by Mr. Mister
from the anthology Welcome to the Real Globe
B-side
  • "Uniform of Youth"
  • "Welcome to the Real World"
Released June 1985 (The states)[1]
Recorded November 1984
Genre
  • Pop stone
  • new moving ridge
Length
  • 5:42 (anthology version)
  • iv:43 (radio/video edit)
  • 4:thirty (7" edit)
Label RCA
Songwriter(s)
  • Richard Folio
  • Steve George
  • John Lang
Producer(s)
  • Mr. Mister
  • Paul De Villiers
Mr. Mister singles chronology
"Hunters of the Night"
(1984) 		"Broken Wings"
(1985) 		"Kyrie"
(1985)
Music video
"Broken Wings" on YouTube
Alternative release
Side A of Australian single

Side A of Australian single

"Broken Wings" is a 1985 vocal recorded by American pop rock band Mr. Mister. It was released in June 1985 every bit the pb single from their second album Welcome to the Real Earth. The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1985, where it remained for two weeks. It was released equally the band was simply virtually to commence on a United states tour opening for Tina Turner. "Broken Wings" became the start of two sequent number ones of the band on the American charts, the other chart-topper being "Kyrie". Exterior of the United States, "Cleaved Wings" topped the charts in Canada, peaked inside the pinnacle 10 of the charts in Commonwealth of australia, Belgium (Flanders), the netherlands, Norway, the Republic of Ireland, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and West Germany, and the summit twenty of the charts in Republic of austria, New Zealand, Spain and Sweden.

Groundwork and music [edit]

The ballad[2] was co-written with lyricist John Lang, who was inspired by Kahlil Gibran'southward novel Broken Wings. [3] The song is a mix of synth, digitally delayed guitar, bass and drums. The vocal's hissing intro was an effect created by the sound of a crash cymbal played in reverse.[three]

Although the 1968 Beatles song, "Blackbird" contains an identical lyric, "Take these cleaved wings and acquire to fly", Richard Page has described this equally "a mindless unintentional reference" owing to both compositions being influenced by the Gibran novel.[four]

Music video [edit]

The music video for "Broken Wings" was directed by Oley Sassone and filmed in blackness-and-white.[5] It features lead vocalist/bassist Richard Page driving through the desert in a classic Ford Thunderbird, the commencement allusion to birds. In that location is a scene where Page is sitting in a church building when a Harris's Hawk flies in through the window and lands next to him on the pew and they exchange a gaze. The total band is also featured in operation scenes. Also appearing in the video are an unknown homo and woman dancing tango. They are but shown from the waist down. At the stop of the video Folio is seen next to the Thunderbird with the vehicle's hood open.

Reception [edit]

Stereogum said the lyrics were:

grandiloquent enough to exist self-parody, but Folio delivers them all perfectly straight-faced. He ways equally of it. In Folio's mouth, the word "take" becomes a desperate animal yelp. I love it. I also love how overproduced "Cleaved Wings" is. The song is all ominous churn, and it never actually kicks in. Instead, it captures a state of sustained anticipation.[vi]

Track listing [edit]

seven" Single[seven]
  1. "Broken Wings" (unmarried edit) - iv:29
  2. "Uniform of Youth" - iv:25
12" Maxi Single[7]
  1. "Broken Wings" (anthology version) - five:45
  2. "Compatible of Youth" - 4:25
  3. "Welcome to the Real World" - 4:18

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

C-Block version [edit]

"Broken Wings"
Single by C-Block
from the album Keepin' It Real
Released March 9, 1998
Recorded 1997
Genre Hip hop
Length 3:59
Label Maad Records
Songwriter(s) Richard Folio, Steve George, John Lang
Producer(s) Jörg Wagner DJ, Ulrich Buchmann, Franky Miller
C-Cake singles chronology
"Eternal Grace"
(1997) 		"Broken Wings"
(1998) 		"Keep Movin'"
(1998)

In 1998, C-Cake covered the song and released it on the album Keepin' It Real. Large parts of the original were retained simply supplemented by rap passages. The success was minor in German-speaking countries.

Music video [edit]

The music video is divide into two acts: Mr. P sings his part on a platform in the bounding main, while Goldie "Golden" Holloway does his role in a sit-in. Also, Theresa "Misty" Baltimore sings her part. The plot is also accompanied past landscape and sky photographs. In the terminate, all three band members are united.[43]

Track listings [edit]

CD-Maxi

  1. Broken Wings (Radio Version) - iii:59
  2. Cleaved Wings (Bird'southward Middle Mix) - 5:07
  3. Being Raised (Album Version) - iv:15
  4. Magic Hip Hop Dreams - half-dozen:46

Charts [edit]

Chart (1998) Peak
position
German Singles Chart 27
Swiss Singles Chart 31[44]

Samples [edit]

"Broken Wings" was sampled in the posthumous Tupac Shakur's single "Until the Stop of Time".[45] The vocal also features Richard Page, lead vocalist of Mr. Mister, on vocals, and reached No. 4 in the UK.[46]

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External links [edit]

  • "Broken Wings" music video on YouTube

Take These Broken Wings and Learn to Fly Again Lyrics

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Wings_(Mr._Mister_song)