Shut Up And Get On The Plane

Album: Southern Rock Opera (2001)
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  • Well your wishes and your feelings
    Your bad dreams and intuitions
    Are about as much good to me right now as a brand new set of golf clubs
    We've been this close to death before, we were just too drunk to know it
    Guess the price of being sobers being scared out of your mind

    [Chorus]
    When it comes your time to go, ain't no good way to go about it
    Ain't no use in thinking bout it
    You'll just drive yourself insane
    There comes a time for everything
    And the time has come for you to shut your mouth and get your ass on the plane

    Ain't nothing I'd rather do right now than just go on home and lay around
    But that ain't never an option for a working man like me
    How much is enough you ask
    I'll ask the man when I get a chance
    All I know right now, there's somewhere else I'm suppose to be

    [Chorus]

    Screaming engines, shooting flames
    Dirty needles and cheap cocaine
    Some gal's old man with a gun
    To me it's all the same
    Dead is dead and it ain't no different than walking around if you ain't living
    Living in fear's just another way of dying before your time

    [Chorus] Writer/s: BRAD MORGAN, EARL HICKS, MIKE COOLEY, PATTERSON HOOD, ROB MALONE
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Hipgnosis Songs Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Matthew from Milford, Ma...The way this songfact puts it, Ronnie Van Zant's death sounds almost karmic!
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