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| Relient K – Jefferson Aero Plane Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I think that the singer is in love with this girl and would do anything for her. A "Jefferson Airplane" is the term used when you're smoking a joint and you get to the end and it's so hot you need to use sticks to hold it. "Jefferson Airplane" is also the name of an old band that kept changing their name and style to fit in with what the popular audiences wanted. If I'm not mistaken, they changed from "Jefferson Airplane" to "Jefferson Starship" to "Starship", but none of the bands under any title were successful. They changed band members and styles and names but couldn't please anyone. I think this song is sort of saying like he's trying so hard, but theres nothing left to hold onto so he's moving on. He loves this girl, but she doesn't notice him. He thinks the world of her but can't understand why ('cause you confuse me more than anyone). He wants to change and be the guy she wants (and I'll go to undergo a change of heart a change of clothes), just like the band "Jefferson Airplane" did, but he's still lonely (and I'll go to undergo a surgery to purge me of this lonely mood). He's not done trying though. Eventually, he moves on (before now, my eyes were closed to all the beauty in this world). She'll always be a part of him, and he'll always be lonley (i think i'll go eat cereal and stare out the window) but he's decided not to change for her. He's sort of wallowing in his lonliness waiting for the world to change for him. This song has such a deep meaning and most people don't understand how to think like Matt Thiessen, which is probably why this song is always very low on their iTunes charts. If you take the time to really think about and embrace the song, you'll find such a deep passion that Matt Thiessen has for music. It's pretty brilliant. This song (and this band) is my favorite. |
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| Relient K – Deathbed Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Matthew Thiessen (writer/lead singer)watched his parents split up when he was 6 years old. In the song, the mother tries to hide the pain from her son of the father leaving, but the son knows better. When the boy in the song turns fourteen, he turns to drugs and alcohol. This is symbolic of all the bad in his life that was making his life something it shouldn't be - anything that was sinful. After, the subject of the song gets married to someone who doesn't love him. Matt Thiessen's fiancee Shannon broke off their wedding without warning, so this could be a metaphor to that feeling of abandonment in Matt's personal life. Then the man in the song tries to hide from the sorrows of his past with "a bottle of Beam" and bowling. He's left with nothing, and the mistakes he made previously are killing him now (the cancer is a result of the smoking - the bad he did can't be undone). He's about to give up hope, until he turns to Jesus. On a previous album, Matt Thiessen wrote a song called "Who I am hates who I've been", where he pretty much says he wants to start over because he's messed up his life so badly. THis is sort of the same idea. In Jesus, the man finds redemption because Jesus's love is unconditional. Even though Matt may have made mistakes, he's finding hope again because Jesus will take him home to heaven. The song isn't really about death, its about new beginnings. Although I can't speak for Matt on this, what I took from "Deathbed" is that the song is a simile to Matt's life and how he wants to fix it. We all make mistakes. I'm definatley not saying that Matt hasn't lived a good life. I met him this summer and he's one of the most genuine and good-souled people I've ever gotten the opportunity to speak to. I think Matt was just expressing his inner feelings, which we all do as humans in different ways. That's what music IS. Of course, this song isn't meant to be taken literally, because Matt doesn't have lung cancer and he wasn't into smoking and drinking at age fourteen, and he still hasn't been married and never had kids. But the meaninig of the song is still relevant to Matt's life. Like many of Relient K's songs, Deathbed is about Jesus. In my opinion, this song has one of the deepest meanings Matt Thiessen has ever written. He's a brilliant musician and a wonderful person. I may not be correct in my interpretation, but I still hope this helped :) |
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