Lyrics > Jon Spencer – I’m Taking Off

Writers: Spencer / Wind / Bowman
Published: Patricia Ann Music, BMI
From: Songs of Personal Loss and Protest (LP, EUROPE)
Transcribed: Pop Catastrophe
Notes: Transcription my not be 100% accurate, text in RED is missing or incorrect and the song includes radio chatter low in the mix at several points.

Alien Humidity
Alien Humidity (Live)
Beetle Boots
Big Yule Log Boogie
Birthday Blues [#2]
Birthday Blues [#3]
Bobby Driver
Bruise
Cape
Come Along
Come On! (Single)
Come On! (Video)
Come-On (Wynn Stewart)
Complication
Coulda Been (Right Now)
Cunt Tease (Live)
Death Ray
The Devil's Ice Age
Disconnected
Do the Trash Can
Fake
Fancy Pants
Fanfare (Another Point of View)
Germ Vs. Jerk
Get Away
Get It Right Now
Get Up & Do It
Ghost
Give It Up 4 the Devil
Guitar Champ
Hangover
Here Come The Fuzz
HITMas [Film Dialogue]
Hornet
I Got the Hits
I Got The Hits (Acoustic)
I'm Taking Off
Junk Man
Knock 'Em Out
Layabout Trap
Looking For A Thrill [Dialogue]
Love Handle
Mr. Lion
Mr Lion (Radio Lomax)
My Christmas Wish
My Hit Parade

No More
Orange Slice Blues
Out of Place
Overload
Primary Baby
Push Comes To Shove
Rotting Money
Slack Motherfucker
Slip Away
Spunk
Step On the Gas
Strike 3
Summertime Blues
Time 2 Be Bad
Tough Times in Plastic Land
Vermin Attack!
Wet & Wild
When Push Comes To Shove
Wilderness
The Worst Facts
Worm Town
Wrong
You Can't Polish A Turd

Hard, yeah, that’s my calling card
Smarter and all the rest
Stuck here with these simpletons
With no one to understand, art or architecture

I’m gonna push my body to the limit
Push myself to the extreme
I got all the time in the world
No, I got the world on a string

[You gotta understand… radio chatter]

Yeah, what it is

[radio chatter]

I got a brand new jack
Some flares
I got chains in the trunk
I’m not calling the triple AAA
I’m not going out like kind of some punk
Always on-point
Ready to rock with the giddy up, go
Through the ice, the rain, the sleet, the mud and the snow
See I don’t need no jump ’cause they say I’m the best
With that tyre iron
Looking so good in my safety vest
I’ve been W905
That’s what I drive
With those trains going up
Yeah, You know it’s a do or die

I’m taking off
Sprout wings right out of my back
I’m taking off
I’m taking flight
Get it while it’s good
I will ascend
I’m taking off

Alright

[radio chatter]

Using the power of the mind
Mathematics and skills
Hundred clicks in the reserve tank
unknown just over the hill
But without the AC on blast
And no stops to pee
I’m stuck standing down in the breakdown lane for all to see

Take it off
Sprout wings right out of my back
I’m taking off
I’m taking flight
Get it while it’s good
I will ascend
Oh no, on the phone, break down
Break down
Break down
Break down
Break down
The humiliation, is incessant
Break down
Break down

There’s no way I’m thumbing a ride with a petrol can

Yeah

I’m taking off
Sprout wings right out of my back
I’m taking off
I’m taking flight
Get it while it’s good
I will ascend

Alright

[Fuck off]

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