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Aeroplane Lyrics
Shut down, tangled up in your machinery
No sound, just the faceless press of words and wheels
Surrounds me like molasses on my soles and eaves
Come out, could anyone come out and play?
All I want is an aeroplane
Rubber banded with paper wings
All I want is to steal again
All I want is a wet dream, ice-cream
All I want is vanishing
All I want is God
Pushed down by an undeserving dumb man
No ground, just an empty room of words and steel
Why be down, drowning in the afternoon
Come out, could anyone come out and play?
All I want is an aeroplane
Rubber banded with paper wings
All I want is to steal again
All I want is a wet dream, ice-cream
All I want is vanishing
All I want is God
Come out, could anyone come out and play?
All I want is an aeroplane
Rubber banded with paper wings
All I want is to steal again
All I want is a wet dream, ice-cream
All I want is vanishing
All I want is an afterglow
A forty-five on my gramophone
All I want is a thick skin to crawl into
Everything's vanishing
All I want is God
No sound, just the faceless press of words and wheels
Surrounds me like molasses on my soles and eaves
Come out, could anyone come out and play?
Rubber banded with paper wings
All I want is to steal again
All I want is a wet dream, ice-cream
All I want is vanishing
All I want is God
No ground, just an empty room of words and steel
Why be down, drowning in the afternoon
Come out, could anyone come out and play?
Rubber banded with paper wings
All I want is to steal again
All I want is a wet dream, ice-cream
All I want is vanishing
All I want is God
Rubber banded with paper wings
All I want is to steal again
All I want is a wet dream, ice-cream
All I want is vanishing
A forty-five on my gramophone
All I want is a thick skin to crawl into
Everything's vanishing
All I want is God
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Been listening to this great song idly, and the lyrics didn't translate for me until I was lying in bed idly thinking about them!
I don't know if there's an official meaning, but to me the song seems to express a longing for the things of youth. The references in each verse seem to all be made about the things of one's teen years: paper aeroplanes, wet dreams, ice cream, 45" records.
Then comes the sense of loss, sadness, and even panic, at the end of the chorus: "All I want is vanishing", sung as the chord changes to the minor.
Also, as far as one can know, Curt and Roland still hadn't healed their rift when it was written (1998/99), so it might well be about that apparent loss also, when you consider the words of the verses.
Great track. Good to know that those two boys made friends again at the turn of the century. All's well that ends well!