Lyrics to
This Flight Tonight

Released by Joni Mitchell in 1971
From the Album: Blue |

This version of This Flight Tonight was released by Joni Mitchell in 1971.

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Look out the left, the captain said
The lights down there that’s where we’ll land
I saw a falling star burn up
Above the Las Vegas sands
It wasn’t the one that you gave to me
That night down south between the trailers
Not the early one
That you can wish upon
Not the northern one
That guides in the sailors

Oh starbright starbright
You’ve got the lovin’ that I like all right
Turn this crazy bird around
I shouldn’t have got on this flight tonight

You got the touch so gentle and sweet
But you’ve got that look so critical
Now I can’t talk to you baby
I get so weak
Sometimes I think love is just mythical
Up there’s a heaven
Down there’s a town
Blackness everywhere and little lights shine
Oh blackness blackness dragging me down
Come on light the candle in this poor heart of mine

Oh starbright starbright
You’ve got the lovin’ that I like all right
Turn this crazy bird around
I shouldn’t have got on this flight tonight

I’m drinking sweet champagne
Got the headphones up high
Can’t numb you out
Can’t drum you out of my mind
They’re playing Goodbye baby
Baby Goodbye
Ooh ooh love is blind

Up go the flaps down go the wheels
I hope you got your heat turned on baby
I hope they finally fixed your automobile
I hope it’s better when we meet again baby

Starbright starbright
You got the lovin’ that I like all right
Turn this crazy bird around
I shouldn’t have got on this flight tonight


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About Lyrics and This Flight Tonight by Joni Mitchell

The lyrics for This Flight Tonight are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1971 song by Joni Mitchell. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to This Flight Tonight have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for This Flight Tonight - Joni Mitchell and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to This Flight Tonight by Joni Mitchell in multiple ways. 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 Joni Mitchell. 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 Joni Mitchell 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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