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The National – Pay for Me Lyrics 12 years ago
I still thing its cogwheel. I think its a type of railway?
That makes a lot more sense, since, why wouldn't a plane be able to turn around? Why would he even be on a faster than sound airplane?
Being on a train fits with the rest of the motif of the song.

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