| Maxïmo Park – Books from Boxes Lyrics | 4 hours ago |
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I think it's about a holiday romance/affair. The first verse is all about being on a plane flying somewhere (or back home?) The towns look like circuit boards as the night falls. The stadium's lights look like flares from the air. The warning signs in the air we breathe are fasten seatbelt and no smoking signs coming from the vents supplying recycled air. Beat the sun as long as they keep moving - the timezone changes as you fly. I guess a flight to Paris isn't really gonna do that, so it suggests long haul flight. They've got Polaroids and a necklace with sprinkled words on it from their holiday? Then she gets into a cab to go her separate way and the rain unloads. Maybe it's an affair. She's married but writes to him anyway. The promise being her wedding vows. She spends the evening unpacking books from boxes that he sends her? I can't make sense of that part really. Multiple boxes would be a lot of books. More like moving house. Or she lives abroad and was moving abroad to where they met. She's on the plane home with him to visit a loved one and the promise is just that she promised her friend/parents she'd visit, so it's time to call the end since she's only home for a week or so before heading back out. |
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