songs wherein one turns into a bird and flies high in the sky etc

one of my favorite metaphors / dreams / feelings in a song.

float up into the sky when you post a song in this thread by including the relevant lyrics.

nina simone - i wish i knew how it would feel to be free

Well, I wish I could be like a bird in the sky
How sweet it would be if I found I could fly
Oh, I'd soar to the sun and look down at the sea
And then I'd sing 'cause I'd know, yeah
Then I'd sing 'cause I'd know, yeah
Then I'd sing 'cause I'd know
(The spirit's moving me)
I'd know how it feels
I'd know how it feels to be free, yeah, yeah

king gizzard & the lizard wizard - Aerodynamic

I said, "I have always wondered
If I could step out of my body
Would I be a fish out of water
Or like a school in harmony?
So, Miss Moon, if I could have one wish
I'd turn my hands into wings
I'd say goodbye to the fish
And I'd jump from the highest cliff"

Neil Young - Danger Bird

And though these wings have turned to stone
I can fly, fly, fly away
Watch me fly above the city
Like a shadow on the sky

Comsat Angels - Birdman

Walking around I get tired
The same sensations all the time
I want something no one sells
I'd rather be somewhere else
Up, up, up where the birds go
Up, up, up where they fly
Up, up, up like a birdman
Up, up, up like a bird

Dario Dell’Aere - Eagles In The Night

I go around
The world, the sea, the ocean
I see a lot of lands
That you could never see

I go around
And if you wanna follow
You must leave your horse and
To take apart your heart

Oh, I will become
An eagle that flies only in the night
And you will become
An eagle goin' with me

Dennis Parker - Like An Eagle

I fly high
Hunting nightly, hunting nightly
I search, I search
Through the city, through the city
Like an eagle, like an eagle
Always hungry, always wanting
Night, light
Always searching, never perching
I soar for more
I fly
At night

Always searching, never perching

this line always cracks me up

Victory Over The Sun - Oscines

one day i awoke to find my hands covered in open sores.
washing the sleep from my eyes, I felt
quilling my skin, the tips of feathers extruding, piercing
bones growing hollow

and at twilight i took flight for the first time
as the undifferentiated space of dimensionless night draws me in
days hang, weeks hang, months hang
upon a yoke of blind isochory
until a dewy field choked with fog gliding parallax
dotted with charm of streetlamps
sprouted like wild grasses.
their grinning aromatic glow
burns cavities through the veil
and the bulbs chirp staccato at the sordid sky

as faceless figure traces glyphs areferential
winding around the achromatic chasm
from which she crawled.

whose whistling winds
homotopy her vestments to flickering foxtrots
and waltz murmurs
i open my mouth to call to her as the sun
swallows my words.

kind of a super obvious one but...

Abba - Eagle

They came flying from far away
Now I'm under their spell
I love hearing the stories that they tell

They've seen places beyond my land
And they've found new horizons
They speak strangely but I understand

And I dream I'm an eagle
And I dream I can spread my wings

Flying high, high
I'm a bird in the sky
I'm an eagle that rides on the breeze
High, high
What a feeling to fly
Over mountains and forests and seas
And to go anywhere that I please

"Free Bird!"

Divine Comedy – Tonight We Fly

Tonight we fly
Over the mountains
The beach and the sea
Over the friends that we've known
And those that we now know
And those whom we've yet to meet

The Chills, "I Soar"

Eye to eye aglow with horizon
Time to fly away for a while
Chase my shadow over the valley below
I soar alone

Not a particularly good song, but maybe the first one that came to mind is Fatboy Slim - Bird Of Prey.

Seeing Like An Eagle posted here made me think why tf have I not listened to that for a few years and I'm listening now. Majestic stuff.

Steve Miller:

I want to fly like an eagle to the sea
Fly like an eagle, let my spirit carry me
I want to fly like an eagle 'til I'm free
Fly through the revolution

One of the most cursed examples of this has to be Lenny Kravitz, right?

I wish that I could fly
Into the sky
So very high
Just like a dragonfly

Dragonflies live from sea level up to the mountains, decreasing in species diversity with altitude.[24] Their altitudinal limit is about 3700 m, represented by a species of Aeshna in the Pamirs.[25]

So he's not too wrong

T-Rex, "Ride a White Swan"

"Fly it all out like an eagle in a sunbeam/ ride it on out like you were a bird"

There is also the different but related thing where the singer sees a bird flying and has an epiphany, as in "Solsbury Hill" and the last verse of "Roll Me Away" by Bob Seger.