Lyrics Flight 93 - Leslie Fish

They took off from Newark on a warm autumn day
With forty five travelers and crew
They all were unarmed at the will of the law
Security passed them all through
An hour into flight time four Arabs jumped up
Two Ahmeds, [?], and Saied
Announced a hijacking and waved knives around
Razor-blades box-knives and steak knives they found
And a box that they swore was a bomb up and down
They thought that was all they would need

Flight 93 no more will fly
Dead on the ground or dead in the sky
You might not survive, but at least you can try
Stand up and bring the ship down

Cici the stewardess had a cellphone
And called up her husband to say
The plane has been hijacked we'll do as we're trained
Be quiet and humbly obey
They'll dicker for money, or some social cause
The government surely will pay
They'll put us out somewhere and leave with their score
Or maybe police will come catch them and more
That's always the way this has been done before
With luck, I'll be home in a day

Flight 93 no more will fly
Dead on the ground or dead in the sky
You might not survive, but at least you can try
Stand up and bring the ship down

Next was Mark Bingham who had a phone two
And used it to call up his mom
He said they'd been hijacked by three foreign men
Who had knives and said they had a bomb
But some of the passengers plotted, he said
To take back the plane as it flew
But first tell me mom, is it true what they say
That three other airplanes were hijacked today
Flown straight into buildings and blew them away
His mother cried and said it's true

Flight 93 no more will fly
Dead on the ground or dead in the sky
You might not survive, but at least you can try
Stand up and bring the ship down

Jeremy Gleck called his wife on the phone
And told of the bomb and the knives
He said if these stories we're hearing are true
We might as well fight for our lives
His wife told him yes, the world trade center's hit
And maybe the pentagon two
He left the phone hanging and came back and said
We've nothing to fight with and may wind up dead
But we've voted to stand up and fight them instead
And we might keep them from getting through

Flight 93 no more will fly
Dead on the ground or dead in the sky
You might not survive, but at least you can try
Stand up and bring the ship down

Thomas burdett phoned his wife several times
Reporting the course of the fight
He said one man's been stabbed and we cant reach the cockpit
But somehow we'll alter the flight
We've guessed that the target is likely the White House
And if we fail we'll surely die
We've nothing to fight with except our bear hands
But we'll keep on fighting until the plane lands
One way or the other, we've taken our stand
My darling, i love you, goodbye

Flight 93 no more will fly
Dead on the ground or dead in the sky
You might not survive, but at least you can try
Stand up and bring the ship down

Jason the pilot could hear the whole tale
He'd signaled as well as he could
He saw that the terrorists still held the cockpit
And one way to stop them for good
He watched as the passengers battled and died
And knew that no help would be found
The guard was distracted, just one chance to win
There's one case where suicide isn't a sin
He weighed all his chances and said hogger in
And drove the ship into the ground

Flight 93 no more will fly
Dead on the ground or dead in the sky
You might not survive, but at least you can try
Stand up and bring the ship down

Down down bring the ship down
Down down bring the ship down

Flight 93 hit the ground at full speed
And no one aboard her survives
But the White House still stands and a few thousand folks
Can thank those aboard for their lives
There's no guarantee when the bad guys come in
That they won't kill us all to a man
So when some fanatics are out to have fun
There's nowhere to hide and there's nowhere to run
Then pray that the law lets you carry a gun
But fight back however you can

Flight 93 no more will fly
Dead on the ground or dead in the sky
You might not survive, but at least you can try
Stand up and bring the ship down