 It is the only song on the album with John without other musicians.He wrote the song in the style of a hymn.The lyrics of the song are metaphorical — describing a pigeon that is flying high and free having been released from a human hand, with the line in the second verse, "but most of all please free me from this aching metal ring", possibly revealing a human longing to be released from a broken marriage and set free to pursue new, truer dreams and ambitions — a theme that would reappear in 1975's "Someone Saved My Life Tonight", using a similar metaphor of a butterfly flying free.