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BRAVE LITTLE FLYER

Mother takes me to JFK
And puts me on a plane
Dad will wait for me in LA
The captain knows my name
They call the Brave Little Flyer
Cause I’m always on the go
I can rise above the clouds
And leave the turbulence below

This Brave Little Flyer will be lifted up
Daddy will swing me around in a ring
But flying with one parent in circles
Well that’s like flying with half a wing

Far below there’s a city
It looks like Christmas lights
Grown ups don’t look so pretty
On this red eye flight
Cruising' at this altitude
High above the great divide
I’m tossed between two parents
But I take it all in stride

This Brave Little Flyer has the right stuff
Some day I’ll be captain
of my own air force
With someone beside you
it ain’t so tough
A good co pilot will stay the course

Stewardess comes to take a look
She thinks my ride is pretty rough
I glance down to my pocket book
And keep my heart good and tough

I used to think that Santa Claus
Could make my family whole
I even dreamt of flying there
Right up to the North Pole
Being older now I’ve given up
On getting them together
The skies are always friendly
Above the stormy weather.

© 2000 Stefan des Lauriers)

Neat lyric as always, Stefan. A bicoastal child of divorce-- now there's an lyric topic I've never seen. And it's well handled too. Why not take lines 5-8 of verse 1 and make that a chorus somehow? The only thing this lyric lacks right now is better structure. And that six-line bridge, if that's what it is, reads a little weird, but that could just be because of where you split your lines.

Nice job here! Lotta good lines.

Anthony

P.S.: What's a "pocket book"? Is that a little paperback he brought with him? Just wondering.

Thanks Anthony,

Good suggestion about making the chorus out of lines 5-8.

The pocket book is a paperback. I think it's a Canadian term, or something I picked up as a kid.

I made a demo of this song (with words a little differen) in 1995. I shopped it around til a friend said that it would make parents of divorced children feel bad. I was looking from the kids point of view, but it wasn't politically correct to write a song about a child who wanted his parents to get back together. Anyhow in the first version he asks the pilot to take him to the North Pole to see Sanity Clause. Now I don''t know about the song.

I liked the idea of a parent swinging a child like an airplane. With a parent at each arm you can go in a straight line, but with one you go in circles... A friend of mine who had a pilots
licence said that both wings are considered one wing... So I'm wondering... Also I don't hink you can leave the turbulance below

Stefan