Ray Pillow (born July 4, 1937) is an American country music singer who has also worked as a music publisher and A&R representative. In his career, he has charted eighteen times on the Billboard country singles charts, with his highest-peaking song being the No. 9 "I'll Take the Dog," a duet with Jean Shepard. After charting for the last time in 1981, Pillow founded Sycamore Records with Larry McFadden, and later worked in the A&R department of Capitol Records.
Pillow has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1966.
I thought as a child
I'd feel like an eagle
Rain on the windscreen
I'm captured in technical solitude
The higher I am
The closer I'll be to the hole in the sky
And all the words unspoken you told me
Soon they'll fade away
Riding on top of the clouds
Up into the gleaming gold of an afternoon
I set my controls for the heart of the sun
To reach for the stratosphere
The higher I am
The closer I'll be to the hole in the sky
And all the words unspoken you told me
Soon they'll fade away
Time's never been on our side
The haze between death or alive
Revealing the secrets of life