I want to try, I want to be me I want to get high, I want you to see I want to fly, I want to be free I hit the trail from Kathmandu With a different kind of trip in view Everest is behind the town Mountain High-bound to get higher My glider high, the Kadu Flyer Cygnus of the skies, the prize And I will rise to win it Never fly through a cloud if there's a mountain in it My route is by the steep ascent Do battle with the elements Peaks of progress, freezing winds Downdraft angels want to drag me down And straining ailerons the only sound And ere we fly the keening wind in the dandelions die Everest, I'll never rest I'll see you a mogul when I'm high I want to try, I want to be me I want to get high, I want you to see I want to fly, I want to be free Crawl the thermal up a mountain Like the Pteradacyl's wings Waves of lift and hidden vibrations Help me to invoke the sun True me up in soaring fun Rising like the phoenix In full flight from the fire A dragon wing of string and sticks Gliding higher and higher and higher