2 Meanings
Add Yours
Follow
Share
Q&A
Incommunicado Lyrics
Travis McGee's still in Cedar Key
That's what John McDonald said
My rendezvous so long overdue
With all of the things I've sung and read
They still apply to me, they all make sense in time
Chorus
But now I'm incommunicado
Driving by myself down the road with a hole in it
Songs with no bravado
Takin' the long way home
Now on the day that John Wayne died
I found myself on the continental divide
Tell me where do we go from here?
Think I'll ride into Leadville and have a few beers
Think of "Red River","Liberty Valence" can't believe the old man's gone
Chorus
But now he's incommunicado
Leaving such a hole in a world that believed
That a life with such bravado
Was taking the right way home
So when I finished the last line
I put the book by itself on the shelf
With my heart in it
Never wasting time takin' the right way home
I know you're never wastin' time
Findin' the right way home
Still I am incommunicado
Livin' next door to a leg with a pin in it
Never wastin' time, takin' the right way home
(Repeat)
That's what John McDonald said
My rendezvous so long overdue
With all of the things I've sung and read
They still apply to me, they all make sense in time
But now I'm incommunicado
Driving by myself down the road with a hole in it
Songs with no bravado
Takin' the long way home
I found myself on the continental divide
Tell me where do we go from here?
Think I'll ride into Leadville and have a few beers
Think of "Red River","Liberty Valence" can't believe the old man's gone
But now he's incommunicado
Leaving such a hole in a world that believed
That a life with such bravado
Was taking the right way home
I put the book by itself on the shelf
With my heart in it
Never wasting time takin' the right way home
I know you're never wastin' time
Findin' the right way home
Livin' next door to a leg with a pin in it
Never wastin' time, takin' the right way home
(Repeat)
Add your song meanings, interpretations, facts, memories & more to the community.
One of my favorite Buffett songs. I often want to go Incommunicado.
Jimmy's just musing about life and the way to live your life. Heroically, the way Travis McGee did in John D. MacDonald's novels or the way John Wayne's movie characters did. Maybe he's also musing that real life doesn't have as much "bravado" as the movies or the novels.
No idea what livin' next door to a leg with a pin in it means, though.
@SteveA He is picking on himself for breaking his leg.
@SteveA He is picking on himself for breaking his leg.
@SteveA He broke his leg a couple of times. Guess he was referring to what might happen if he broke it again.
@SteveA He broke his leg a couple of times. Guess he was referring to what might happen if he broke it again.