@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
It's the day before the rest of my life
And I feel like Dylan Thomas
Says my muse if you stay I'll go
If I'm not lying I'm not being honest
It'd be the death of me to keep her pace
And my bride I haven't even laid eyes on
But my ghosts they come to me these days
My companions from the day I was born
Airplane primitive
Saw it and thought it was some kind of bird
It landed, he made up his mind
Can't, can't live
Airplane primitive
Saw it and thought it was some kind of bird
It landed, he made up his mind
Can't live knowing that there's some other world
Well come with me on one last run
Then I swear I'll join you in the sun
Airplane primitive
Saw it and thought it was some kind of bird
It landed, he made up his mind
Can't live knowing that there's some other world
Where men fly up in the sky
Strapped himself to the wing for a one way ride
And in the air, above a cloud
There his soul stayed when his body fell down.
Airplane primitive
Saw it and thought it was some kind of bird
It landed, he made up his mind
Can't live knowing that there's some other world
Where men fly up in the sky
Strapped himself to the wing for a one way ride
And in the air, above the clouds
There his soul stayed when his body fell down.
And I feel like Dylan Thomas
Says my muse if you stay I'll go
If I'm not lying I'm not being honest
It'd be the death of me to keep her pace
And my bride I haven't even laid eyes on
But my ghosts they come to me these days
My companions from the day I was born
Airplane primitive
Saw it and thought it was some kind of bird
It landed, he made up his mind
Can't, can't live
Airplane primitive
Saw it and thought it was some kind of bird
It landed, he made up his mind
Can't live knowing that there's some other world
Well come with me on one last run
Then I swear I'll join you in the sun
Airplane primitive
Saw it and thought it was some kind of bird
It landed, he made up his mind
Can't live knowing that there's some other world
Where men fly up in the sky
Strapped himself to the wing for a one way ride
And in the air, above a cloud
There his soul stayed when his body fell down.
Airplane primitive
Saw it and thought it was some kind of bird
It landed, he made up his mind
Can't live knowing that there's some other world
Where men fly up in the sky
Strapped himself to the wing for a one way ride
And in the air, above the clouds
There his soul stayed when his body fell down.
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I know parts of this are wrong..."There is no state in his body flew down" isn't right, but I did the best I could. Anyone have any corrections? Such a good song. Not really sure what I think its meaning is...yet.
I believe the line where you had "There is no state when his body fell down" is "There his soul stayed when his body fell down." I'm pretty sure this song is about some guy who just wants to give up on life. The lines "And my bride I haven't even laid eyes on But my ghosts they come to me these days My companions from the day I was born" Basically describe how he's going to end his life before he's even been married and the 'ghosts' are basically relatives or close ones who may have passed on and he's going to visit them/wants to. And the whole airplane chorus is basically him taking the trip up to heaven, thus that's where his soul stays when his body falls down.
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i think this song is about a primitive who is illiterate... and when he sees an airplane land on his island he wishes to be like the bird that he assumes it is... then he ties himself to the plane and the next time it takes off, with it so does he. songwriters don't always write about themselves.
if i am wrong, then at least i know he is comparing something to the concept of a primitive not understanding the complexities of modern technology... a sort of naivety that is purely innocent and deathly.
Promano, I think he means primitive in the sense that live is, and the airplane is the only way to escape that. But, I don't know, I didn't write it.
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