This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
(Jet, Jet)
(Jet) I can almost remember their funny faces
That time you told them you were going to marrying soon
And Jet I thought the only lonely place was on the moon
(Jet, Jet)
Jet was your father as bold as the sergeant major
How come he told you that you were hardly old enough yet
And Jet I thought the major was a lady suffragette
(Jet, Jet)
Ah mater want Jet to always love me
Ah mater want Jet to always love me
Ah mater, much later
(Jet)
And Jet I thought the major was a lady suffragette
(Jet, Jet)
Ah mater want Jet to always love me
Ah mater want Jet to always love me
Ah mater, much later
Jet with the wind in your hair
Of a thousand laces
Climb on the back and we'll go for a ride in the sky
And Jet I thought that the major was a little lady suffragette
(Jet, Jet)
And Jet you know I thought you was a little lady suffragette
(Jet)
A little lady
My little lady, yes
(Jet) I can almost remember their funny faces
That time you told them you were going to marrying soon
And Jet I thought the only lonely place was on the moon
(Jet, Jet)
Jet was your father as bold as the sergeant major
How come he told you that you were hardly old enough yet
And Jet I thought the major was a lady suffragette
(Jet, Jet)
Ah mater want Jet to always love me
Ah mater want Jet to always love me
Ah mater, much later
(Jet)
And Jet I thought the major was a lady suffragette
(Jet, Jet)
Ah mater want Jet to always love me
Ah mater want Jet to always love me
Ah mater, much later
Jet with the wind in your hair
Of a thousand laces
Climb on the back and we'll go for a ride in the sky
And Jet I thought that the major was a little lady suffragette
(Jet, Jet)
And Jet you know I thought you was a little lady suffragette
(Jet)
A little lady
My little lady, yes
Lyrics submitted by billy talent is god
Jet Lyrics as written by Paul Mccartney Linda Mccartney
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Jet invited her boyfriend to some kind of family social. She told them that she would be marrying soon. They were shocked to hear this because they thought she was saying that she was pregnant. Her father spoke up as bold as a sergeant major and told her that she was too young. He didn't approve of this boy. He told her that she was never allowed to see him again. They were in love so the world was a lonelier place than the moon while they were apart. This boy would go to Mass and pray to Mother Mary that Jet would always love him and that one day they would get married. So they eloped. They rode off with her on the back of his motorcycle and with her white laced wedding vale blowing in the wind. This may sound very disrespectful because Linda is no longer with us, the reason why the girl in this story was named Jet is because Paul use to have a dog named jet. This may be a rebuff to a very nasty joke going around at the time. What do you call a dog with wings? Linda McCartney.
really? Nothing here about meaning of suffragettes and mater being mom? Even Bowie could have picked up on the suffragettes!
The song referenced David Bowie. I thought the major (Major Tom) was a little lady suffergent (suffergent city).
In a 2017 interview on Australian radio station Triple J for the segment Take 5, McCartney said that the song was actually about his experience meeting Linda's father:
wow this song is so good it is saddening that there are no comments for it D:
I had heard that this song is about Paul's beloved dog he had as a child
Jet invited her boyfriend to some kind of family social. She told them that she would be marrying soon. They were shocked to hear this because they thought she was saying that she was pregnant. Her father spoke up as bold as a sergeant major and told her that she was too young. He didn't approve of this boy. He told her that she was never allowed to see him again. They were in love so the world was a lonelier place than the moon while they were apart. This boy would go to Mass and pray to Mother Mary that Jet would always love him and that one day they would get married. So they eloped. They rode off with her on the back of his motorcycle and with her white laced wedding vale blowing in the wind. This may sound very disrespectful because Linda is no longer with us, the reason why the girl in this story was named Jet is because Paul use to have a dog named jet. This may be a rebuff to a very nasty joke going around at the time. What do you call a dog with wings? Linda McCartney.
Jet refers to Paul's childrens horse, not his dog.