{"id":44358,"date":"2025-10-03T22:12:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=44358"},"modified":"2025-10-03T22:20:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:20:56","slug":"eric-burdon-the-animals-sky-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/10\/03\/eric-burdon-the-animals-sky-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Burdon &#038; The Animals &#8211; Sky Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eric Burdon &amp; The Animals - Sky Pilot -  Long Version\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m0JMCaKwOUY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@moondogmike500\">Moondog mike<\/a> Nov 9, 2014 Wikipedia &#8220;Sky Pilot&#8221; is a 1968 song by Eric Burdon &amp; The Animals, released on the album The Twain Shall Meet. When released as a single the song was split across both sides, due to its length (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m0JMCaKwOUY&amp;t=447s\">7:27<\/a>). As &#8220;Sky Pilot (Parts 1 &amp; 2)&#8221; it reached number 14 on the U.S. pop charts and number 15 on the Canadian RPM chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lyrics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He blesses the boys as they stand in line<br>The smell of gun grease and the bayonets they shine<br>He&#8217;s there to help them all that he can<br>To make them feel wanted he&#8217;s a good holy man<br>Sky pilot&#8230;..sky pilot<br>How high can you fly<br>You&#8217;ll never, never, never reach the sky<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He smiles at the young soldiers<br>Tells them its all right<br>He knows of their fear in the forthcoming fight<br>Soon there&#8217;ll be blood and many will die<br>Mothers and fathers back home they will cry<br>Sky pilot&#8230;..sky pilot<br>How high can you fly<br>You&#8217;ll never, never, never reach the sky<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He mumbles a prayer and it ends with a smile<br>The order is given<br>They move down the line<br>But he&#8217;ll stay behind and he&#8217;ll meditate<br>But it won&#8217;t stop the bleeding or ease the hate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the young men move out into the battle zone<br>He feels good, with God you&#8217;re never alone<br>He feels tired and he lays on his bed<br>Hopes the men will find courage in the words that he said<br>Sky pilot&#8230;..sky Pilot<br>How high can you fly<br>You&#8217;ll never, never, never reach the sky<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Interlude)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re soldiers of God you must understand<br>The fate of your country is in your young hands<br>May God give you strength<br>Do your job real well<br>If it all was worth it<br>Only time it will tell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the morning they return<br>With tears in their eyes<br>The stench of death drifts up to the skies<br>A young soldier so ill looks at the sky pilot<br>Remembers the words<br>&#8220;Thou shalt not kill&#8221;<br>Sky pilot&#8230;..sky pilot<br>How high can you fly<br>You never, never, never reach the sky<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Lyrics from streetdirectory.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moondog mike Nov 9, 2014 Wikipedia &#8220;Sky Pilot&#8221; is a 1968 song by Eric Burdon &amp; The Animals, released on the album The Twain Shall Meet. When released as a single the song was split across both sides, due to its length (7:27). As &#8220;Sky Pilot (Parts 1 &amp; 2)&#8221;&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/10\/03\/eric-burdon-the-animals-sky-pilot\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44360,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44358\/revisions\/44360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}