Bells & Circles - Underworld, Iggy Pop

If I had wings

I wouldn’t do anything beautiful and transcendent

No

I’d get my finger into everything I wanted

I’d do all the beautiful things

Those things you can’t do

Because nobody wants you to be able to do

The things that make you feel good

Like you can’t smoke on the airplane

I remember smoking on the airplane

I used to love to smoke on the airplane

Those were the golden days of air travel

They would just open the door at the airport

And you’d walk right out the tarmac

And up those stairs and light a big cigarette

And stick it in the ashtray

And the stewardess would come along

And if she was hot, you can try to pick her up

Once I was flying

From New York to DC

I didn’t have much time

And the stewardess was smoking

She was a dusky tall

American beauty

And I put down my tray table

Snorted a gram of cocaine

Till I got up my courage to say

«Can I have your phone number?»

And she gave me the number

That was the good news

The bad news was I got too stoned and I’d lost the number

The stewardess would’ve been better than the cocaine

I made an error in judgement

But still I remember smoking on the airplane

Smoking on the airplane

Smoking on the airplane, everybody did it

They’d gather at the back on the way to Australia

And all puff up at once outside the bathroom

And that’s why if I had wings

That would be a bad idea, hahahahaha, I guess

According to everything I’ve been taught about the laws of

Ethics and karma and good behavior, hahahahaha

If I had wings, I’d go, yum, yum, yum-yum, yum-yum, yum, ow!

I’d have fun

If I had wings, I’d have fun

Smoking on the airplane

Sunlight on my wings

Sunlight on my wings

Sunlight on my wings

Sunlight on my wings

Sunlight on my wings

Sunlight on my wings

(You can’t do that)

(You can’t do that)

(You can’t do that)

(You can’t do that)

Teenage boys used to hijack the airplane and send it to Cuba

Castro would charge 20 grand

The airline would get your airplane back

He had a good business (You can’t do that, you can’t do that)

It’s over (You can’t do that, you can’t do that)

It’s over for the liberal democracies (You can’t do that)

It’s over (You can’t do that)

Here comes the jungle (You can’t do that)

Sunlight on my wings

Sunlight on my wings

Sunlight on my wings

Sunlight on my wings (You can’t do that)

Sunlight on my wings (You can’t do that)

Sunlight on my wings (You can’t do that)

No more rock critics (You can’t do that, you can’t do that)

No more (You can’t do that)

European ideas of (You can’t do that)

Good and bad (You can’t do that)

Only a vengeful (You can’t do that)

God does not allow smoking on the airplane

(You can’t do that, you can’t do that)

(You can’t do that) There will be no revolution (You can’t do that)

And that’s why (You can’t do that)

It won’t be televised (You can’t do that)

Sunlight on my wings

Sunlight on my wings

Sunlight on my wings

Sunlight on my wings

Sunlight (You can’t do that)

Sunlight (You can’t do that)

Sunlight (You can’t do that)

Sunlight (You can’t do that)

If I had wings…