| Jefferson Airplane – Wooden Ships Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I'm fairly sure this song isn't quite fantasy oriented like many others have stated, instead, I believe it takes the perspective of a soldier in vietnam. The beginning seems to indicate he is lost on this land "I can see by your coat my friend, you're from the other side" Then he gets lost in this jungle surviving off of these purple berries for 6 or 7 weeks now, hasn't got sick once.. At first I believed that the wooden ships would have been the soldiers transport back home. But there are too many flaws with that theory. So I believe the wooden ships turned into a hobby as he returned home. Perhaps for fishing, sailing, just an activity that is peaceful, free. The character then meets a girl back home, he falls in love and takes his horrors of the war away by spending time with her. But they both watch as his horrors mentally kill him. It is also very possible knowing Jefferson Airplane, that they get into acid in this story. They start to escape from this foreign land mentally. I believe that he met this girl before the war and returned to her, that is how is what died, he didn't literally die, it was the character before the war that died, and the character after is a monster. Anyone who has experienced acid would agree that "Go ride the music" is indeed a reference to acid. Inferring these characters ending their pain through escape. Very sad, realistic song. One of my favorites from the airplane. |
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