This Flight Tonight
by Joni Mitchell
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 starlight, star bright
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 starlight, star bright
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
Starlight, star bright
You got the lovin' that I like all right
Turn this crazy bird around
I shouldn't have got on this flight tonight
© April 30, 1971; Joni Mitchell Pub Corp
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This Flight Tonight has been recorded by 74 other artists
- A Bird That Whistles (from "A Bird That Whistles" - 1996)
- Adam Theis (Jazz Mafia) featuring Aima the Dreamer & Erica Dee (from "UnderCover, Faultline Studios and Kalx Present: Joni Mitchell's Blue" - 2012)
- Aimee-Jo Benoit & Trio Velocity (from "Borjoner" - 2020)
- Allison Scola and Anna Dagmar (from "Joni Mitchell's Blue: a 40th Anniversary Celebration" - 2012)
- Anne SeeYou (from "Like a river (Talking to my piano) " - 2006)
- Antonioli, Laurie (from "Songs of Shadow, Songs of Light " - 2014)
- Arc Iris (from "Foggy Lullaby" - 2018)
- Art d'Ecco (from "Trespasser" - 2019)
- Blind Guardian (- )
- Borzym, Monika (from "Back To The Garden" - 2016)
- Bros Rock Crew (from "Strictly b-boy BREAKS Volume 2" - )
- Burning Vision (from "Fear of reality" - 1991)
- Chisholm, Shane (from "No One Came" - 2011)
- Clark, Merideth Kaye (from "Blue" - 2016)
- Colman, Sara (from "Ink On A Pin" - 2021)
- Craig, Sara (from "Back To The Garden" - 1992)
- Craig, Sara (from "(Live)" - 1993)
- Deming, Connie (from "Connie Sings Joni" - 2021)
- Diamond Head (from "Evil Live" - 1994)
- Doogie White (from "Another Hair of the Dog: A Tribute to Nazareth" - 2001)
- E-Clypse (from "Came Upon A Child of God" - 2000)
- Emily (from "Digital Single" - 2022)
- Farkasember, Jay (- )
- Go Four 3 (from "No Means No" - 1986)
- Grimmett, Steve (from "Voices Of British Heavy Metal " - 2011)
- Heaven's Gate (from "In Control" - 1989)
- Highway State (from "Joni Mitchell Cover Comp" - 2020)
- Hydra (- )
- Imagine (- )
- Iron Savior (from "Iron Savior" - 1997)
- Jack Barten & Ryan McCulloch (from "Decisive Battles of The Western World, Vol. 1" - 2024)
- James, Morgan (from "Blue" - 2016)
- Jengis (from "13 (thirteen)" - 2013)
- Kelso, Wayne (from "Digital Single" - 2022)
- Lagan, Mandy (from "The Joni Book II" - 2017)
- Last, James (from "Non Stop Dancing 1974/2" - 1974)
- Little Emporer (- 2001)
- Long Winded Trousers (from "Nu Wave Indie Cowboy Chique" - 2017)
- Mackin, Kirstie (- )
- Maggie Hollinbeck & Graham Sobelman (from "Another Shade Of Blue" - 2014)
- Major Healey (from "More Live" - 2003)
- Mama's Boys (from "Live Tonite" - 1991)
- Margot Macdonald & John Jennings With One Horse Town (from "Strathmore Presents - A Tribute To Joni Mitchell" - 2009)
- Mastaman (from "Seventies Styla" - 1995)
- Naked (- 2005)
- Nazareth (from "Loud & Proud" - 1973)
- Nazareth (from "Move Me" - 1994)
- Nazareth (from "No Jive" - 1992)
- Nazareth (from "single - mono version" - 1973)
- Nazareth (from "Snaz (Live 1981)" - 1997)
- Noonan, Katie (from "Joni Mitchell's Blue" - 2023)
- Outer Park (from "Blood From An Orange" - 2023)
- Parallel 41 (from "Digital Single" - 2023)
- Patsy Decline (from "More Live at Valhalla" - 2019)
- Paul (from "Covers of songs that inspired" - 2023)
- Phantoms of Future (from "This Flight Tonight" - 1995)
- Pura Fe (from "Full Moon Rising" - 2009)
- Robin Adler & Mutts of the Planet (from "Joni Mitchell's Blue & Court And Spark - Live At Dizzy's" - 2011)
- Rumba Club (from "Radio Mundo" - 2001)
- Sandbloom, Kevin (from "Sandbloom Still Blue" - 2011)
- Shaw, Ian (from "Famous Rainy Day" - 1995)
- Sunaga t experience and J.Lamotta Suzume (from "Re Blue" - 2022)
- Surette, Jamie John (from "Digital Single" - 2018)
- Susanna & David Wallumrød (from "Live" - 2021)
- The Joni Mitchell Project (from "Shades of Blue" - 2023)
- The Masters School Jazz Band (from "Joni Mitchell Blue" - 2020)
- The Pen-Mars (from "The Pen-Mars" - 2015)
- The Practicers (from "Smooth & Raw" - 2000)
- Wayne (from "Turns Per Minute" - )
- While, Chris (from "Festival Folk Sing Joni Mitchell" - 2010)
- Widow (from "Rockit" - 1985)
- WISH (- )
- Ylinen, Timo (from "This Flight Tonight EP" - 2016)
- Zimmer's Hole (from "Legion of Flames" - )
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