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Bloodrock – D.O.A. lyrics
I remember, we were flying along,
And hit something in the air...

Laying here, looking at the ceiling,
Someone lays a sheet across my chest.
Something warm is flowing down my fingers
Pain is flowing all through my back.

I try to move my arm and there's no feeling
And when I look, I see there's nothing there.
The face beside me stopped bleeding
The girl I knew has such a distant stare.

I remember, we were flying along,
And hit something in the air.

Then I look straight at the attendant,
His face is pale as it can be.
He bends and whispers something softly,
He says there's no chance for me.

I remember, we were flying along,
And hit something in the air.

Life is flowing out my body,
Pain is flowing out with my blood.
The sheets are red and moist where I'm lying.
God in Heaven, teach me how to die.

I remember, we were flying along,
And hit something in the air.
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Songwriters: BENJAMIN LLOYD JOLLIFFE, FRASER MACLEOD TAYLOR, GUSTAV TOMAS WOOD, JOHN STUART TAYLOR, SIMON MITCHELL
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    Unregistered 2021-10-18 02:45:44
    I was in the 5th grade in Euless,Tx Midway Park Elementary for anyone who might have been there at that time. Like the previous posts I’ve read, this song stuck in my head. It was like nothing id ever heard at such a young age. I’m now 62 and it still is in my mind. At the time, i thought it was about some one that OD’d on LSD, that was the drug we were taught about in school.
    Michael Gray
    Midland TX
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    Unregistered 2015-07-19 20:42:31
    I heard this first when I was eight or nine years old. My older brother played it on our "hi fi" remember those? It scared me silly but I knew it was a unique song. Different then the rock I grew up with. About ten years ago I heard it for the first time since it came out. It still had the same effect on me. Gory, chilling and brilliant.
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    Unregistered 2013-10-26 17:41:42
    The motivation for writing this song was explained in 2005 by guitarist lee pickens. -when I was 17, I wanted to be an airline pilot, " pickens said. -i had just gotten out of this airplane with a friend of mine, at this little airport, and I watched him take off. He went about 200 feet in the air, rolled and crashed. " the band decided to write a song around the incident and include it on their second album.
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    Unregistered 2019-12-13 12:03:04
    I'm like most on here. I thought it was flying low too. And was about a car accident. I was a kid when this came out. My brother bought it. It gave me the willys.it was so different. Unforgettable. Haunting. But it stuck with me all these decades later. So it had something. I think it came out around the same time as the song " Things get a little bit easier once you understand" by Think. Commentary music of the hippie times I think.
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    Unregistered 2020-09-27 18:20:31
    I had completely forgotten this oddity and then one day I heard it on an oldies station. Brings back memories. The song is about an aviation mishap. Google Bloodrock; it’s in their Wikipedia article.
    When that song came out I was 19 and in college. One of my friends had a private pilot license. His father let him use his Cessna. I think it was a 172. Anyway, my friend took me flying one Saturday morning and he kept singing the chorus to that song. It was funny at first but after an hour I wanted him to shut up. That’s all that song is about, nothing in a secondary context.
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    Unregistered 2017-03-24 13:38:47
    I was in the 4th grade in Ft. Worth Texas when my best friend Matthew Hancock showed me this album and introduced this song to me. Never forgot it. I always thought it was "We were flying LOW and hit something in the air" and I always thought it was about a speeding car crash. I am 56 now living in North Dakota, I like to cue it up from time to time and listen to it, its heavy rock at its finest, and its worst, but its unforgettable.
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    Unregistered 2015-05-11 12:52:19
    Remember I was around 18 in California. Heard it first time and it stunned me. Never forgot it I am 66 now. First time I've heard it, since then, strange still gripped my heart. Weird isn't it? Seen many accidents, hope I never see one that reminds me of this. It's awesome that we now can find these songs after all this time.
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    Unregistered 2021-03-11 05:07:18
    This song has haunted me since I last heard it. I was about 10 or so and it was being played loudly by the older brother of my friend. I never knew who this song was by, or even what the song was called, but I was led to it just now when reading a great piece by Pat Blashill in SMU's Southwest Review on the anti-racism nature of Austin's 80's punk scene, whereby King Coffey (of Butthole Surfers) was commenting on how the 1st time he heard the Butthole Surfers play they were playing DOA by Bloodrock (a Fort Worth acid rock band), and how it impressed him, and how he was later asked to join the Butthole Surfers. And it dawned on me that maybe this was the monster song that had escaped me for so long, and it was. Its heavy, and its now happily in my library.
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    Unregistered 2012-03-12 02:41:50
    The lyrics here say "we were flying along", which isn't the way I remember it. I remember "we were flying low", which was a phrase back then that meant really speeding, flying speed, but low the ground. Hit something in the air would just be a continuation of the "flying" metaphor.
    I thought the song was gruesome, but appealing to me at the time since I didn't drive anywhere but what I wasn't speeding. How my dad put up with all the cars I crashed is beyond me. I listened to the song on denver's kimn radio, but after hearing it only a few times, kimn quit playing it. I never heard it again until tonight I was curious enough to look it by the lyric I remembered, "we were flying low, and hit something in the air". Wow. I'm glad I actually survived the 10 years after graduation.
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    Unregistered 2018-10-14 03:03:16
    I remember this from my Collage days. When this song came out the words were, "We were flying low and hit something in the end". It was all about very fast driving cars and assumidly running into the back end of a slower moving car. Everybody had "muscle cars" them and speed was what they did. The words may have changed but the intensity is still there. A "light duty" version of this song would be "Last Kiss". That'll tear your heart out too.
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    Unregistered 2022-05-24 04:51:40
    Not really. I was though. My older brother used to play this song even though he knew it freaked me TF out. I forgave him because he turned me on to such great music. This one was the worst. I used to cry. Tonight I made the choice to read the lyrics and I don't know how I feel but I feel better about it. It's about dying and no one gets out of here alive.
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    Unregistered 2021-09-04 19:24:34
    I remember the song in the 70s. I always thought it as a
    couple of high school 12th graders driving home from party hardy, flying high or drunk or both. Their in the car, the driver behind the wheel driving at high speed hit something and the driver looses control of the car and crashed, and then song goes from there. I never know it had to do with a plain crash. I also remember more of the lyrics thats not been given on information post, It goes (we were flying and the trees and the yellow dots began to blend and became as one). I'm sure that not quite the quote but it is the piont of that part of the song, that is now missing. I also agree that the original song said "LOW."
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    gil68 2021-05-12 01:58:27
    Wow, I always thought it was about a car crash too. we were always flying in our cars back then, and flying too high as well if ya know what I mean.

    watch them live, they sing low, not along, will have to play the album and listen more closely

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    Deathhag 2009-08-15 02:13:07
    In downtown Ft. Worth there is the mixmaster where all the highways come together. The top ramp / interchange from I-35W to I-30 east is about 200 + ft above the ground level. In 1968 this vehicle was hauling buns and lost control this guy that was driving was just" FLYING" man I mean booking it. Lost control slammed through the guardrail, and bounced off every tier, collumn, lower guardrails and roadways that were at 100-125 ft range before imploding themselves into the concrete embankment below! There was hair, teeth and eyeballs all over the pavement and people were smashing into this vehicle as it bounced off the 60 degree angle concrete embankment on to the oncoming traffic. And smash its a miracle he lived long enough to make it to the hospital.! Lll.
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