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{{HTDA
| title=On The Wing
| album=''[[An Omen EP]]''<br>''[[Welcome Oblivion (album)|Welcome Oblivion]]''
| length=4:53
| BPM = 92
| versions=On The Wing
| live=[[How To Destroy Angels Live 2013]]<br>[[Cold And Black And Infinite Tour]]
}}
[[Image:06_On_the_wing.jpg|thumb|Embedded artwork]]
'''"On The Wing"''' is a song by [[How To Destroy Angels]] from their second release, ''[[An Omen EP]]''. It is also one of four songs from the EP featured on HTDA's first full-length release, ''[[Welcome Oblivion (album)|Welcome Oblivion]]'', and the only song to appear on both releases that has thus far not been given a music video.

It was [[Cover Songs|covered]] by [[Nine Inch Nails]] with [[Mariqueen Maandig]] during the [[NIN + QOTSA Tour]]. On [[2018/12/14_Los_Angeles,_CA|December 14, 2018]], [[Mike Garson]] joined the band to perform the song.

==Appearances==
*''An Omen EP''
*''Welcome Oblivion''

==Versions==
===On The Wing===
This is the only known version.

==Lyrics==
    Weeds grown 
    Should have known 
    On our own 
    We wait 
    Single file 
    An empty smile 
    And all the while 
    We wait
    
    I hear the word is on the wing 
    I don't believe in anything
    
    Cast aside 
    This great divide 
    With foolish pride 
    We wait 
    Off the trail 
    We eat our tails 
    Bound to fail 
    And wait
    
    I hear the word is on the wing 
    I don't believe in anything
    A chorus of voices rise to sing 
    I don't believe in anything
    
    Used to 
    Believe in you 
    Yet all we do 
    Is wait

{{succession box 
| title=[[Welcome Oblivion (album)|Welcome Oblivion]]  
| before= [[Ice Age]]
| after= [[Too Late, All Gone]]
| track= 6
}}
{{succession box 
| title=[[An Omen EP#Track listing|An Omen EP]]  
| before=[[Ice Age]]
| after= [[The Sleep Of Reason Produces Monsters]]
| track= 3
}}[[Category:Covers]]