Nightmare at 20,000 ft. Lyrics

Lyric discussion by falcotron 

Cover art for Nightmare at 20,000 ft. lyrics by Pop Will Eat Itself

The title is of course referencing the Twilight Zone episode of the same name.

I'm not sure if the song is about irrational fear of flying, or about the somewhat more rational fear of flying in the near future if John Major got his way with airline deregulation.

As it turned out, when deregulation happened in 1992, all the new fly-by-night airlines with lax safety and maintenance standards quickly went out of business and got bought out by the older low-cost airlines like Ryanair before they managed to kill lots of people, but who could predict that in 1990?