Lyrics to
This Flight Tonight

This version of This Flight Tonight was released by Nazareth in 1973.

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Look out the left the captain said
The lights down there that’s where we’ll land
Saw a falling star burning
High above the Las Vegas sand

It wasn’t the one that you gave to me
That night down south between the trailers
Not the early one that you wish upon
Not the northern one that guides in the sailors

You’ve got that touch so gentle and sweet
But you’ve got that look so critical
Can’t talk to you babe you know I get so weak
Sometimes I think that love is just mythical

Up there’s a heaven, down there’s a town
Blackness everywhere any little lights shine
Blackness, blackness draggin’ me down
Come on light a candle in this heart of mine

Starbright, starbright, you’ve got the lovin’ that I like
Turn this crazy bird around
Should not have got on this flight tonight

I’m drinkin’ sweet champagne got the headphones up high
Can’t numb you, can’t drum you out of my mind

They’re singin’-“Goodbye baby,
Baby bye-bye,
Ooh! love is blind”

Up go the flaps,down go the wheels
Hope you got your heat turned on baby
Hope they’ve finally fixed your automobile
Hope it’s better when we meet again babe.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to This Flight Tonight, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Nazareth. Some of the lyrics to This Flight Tonight have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Nazareth and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to This Flight Tonight if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to This Flight Tonight" means the words set to the music of This Flight Tonight, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Nazareth. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to This Flight Tonight and the lyrics to This Flight Tonight are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Nazareth who came here looking just for the lyrics to This Flight Tonight, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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