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Stereogum wrote about the song: [6] Lyrically, "Broken Wings" is an attempt to keep a relationship together through the magic of flowery language: "Take these broken wings/ And learn to fly again, learn to live so free/ When we hear the voices sing/ The book of love will open up and let us in."
[25] Although the 1985 Mr. Mister song "Broken Wings" contains an identical lyric, "Take these broken wings and learn to fly", Mr. Mister member Richard Page has described this as "a mindless unintentional reference" attributable to songwriter John Lang being inspired by Kahlil Gibran's 1912 book Broken Wings. [26]
Verse 1 Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life, you were only waiting For this moment to arise
Two singles from the album, "Broken Wings" and "Kyrie", topped the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, while "Is It Love" peaked at number eight. Welcome to the Real World topped the Billboard 200 in March 1986. A remastered 25th-anniversary edition of the album was released as a digipak on April 20, 2010.
Anything my song and Beyoncé’s fabulous version can do to ease racial tension would be a great thing and makes me very proud.” ... set yourself free; take these broken wings.” ...
There’s a song called 'Ya Ya' that’s a total bop and fun." It's "a beautiful record," Hoda said. "It’s gonna be fun." ... now's your time to arise, set yourself free and take these broken ...
The song was very successful and was a big contributor to the album going 4x Platinum. The song features R.L. Huggar from the R&B group Next. An alternate version features Mr. Mister's lead singer and bassist Richard Page on vocals and bass. The music video for the song contains a compilation of unreleased footage of Shakur.
It ends with the previously unreleased song entitled "Waiting in My Dreams" (which was originally intended for Pull, an album that would go unreleased until 2010). All the tracks are single edits and are remastered from the original recordings.