About the Song
Spirits Having Flown is the fifteenth album by the Bee Gees, released in 1979 by RSO Records. It was the group’s first album after they collaborated on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. The album’s first three tracks were released as singles and all reached No. 1 in the US, giving the Bee Gees an unbroken run of six US chart-toppers in one year and equaling a feat shared by Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, and The Beatles. It was the first Bee Gees album to make the UK Top 40 in ten years (not counting the soundtrack for Saturday Night Fever), as well as being their first and only UK No. 1 album. Spirits Having Flown also topped the charts in Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, and the US. The album has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.
Spirits Having Flown marked the end of the band’s most successful era, before a severe downturn in the early 1980s when they were subject to a near-total radio blackout (particularly in America) that Robin Gibb would refer to as “censorship” and “evil” in interviews.
Reprise Records remastered and re-released the album on CD in 2006, although it did not include any additional bonus tracks, demos, or outtakes.
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Lyrics
I never fell in love so easilyWhere the four winds blow I carry onI’d like to take you where my spirit flysThrough the empty skys
We go alone never before having flownFaster than lightning is this heart of mineIn the face of time I carry onI’d like to take you where my rainbow ends
Be my lover friendWe go alone never before having flown
I am your hurricaneYour fire in the sunHow long must I live in the airYou are my paradise
My angel on the runHow long must I waitIt’s the dawn of the feelingThat starts from the moment you’re there
You’ll never know what you have done for meYou broke all those rules I live uponI’d like to take you to my shangrilaNeither here or far away from home
Never before having flownThere I’d like to take you where my spirit flysThrough the empty skys we go aloneNever before having flown