747 (english) Lyrics

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Cover art for 747 (english) lyrics by Kent

Aside from a few lines the English version is very different from the Swedish version, which seems like a fairly straight-forward (yet lovely) description of an airplane crash:

"and as panic breaks out / you smile faintly / and whisper to me / 'You are worth dying for' / but against rubber, glass, and metal / a miracle means nothing at all."

The English version seems to not be aircraft related at all though, as the only clearly airplane-related part, "The fully air conditioned sound of speed " - which, with the exception of "silence", is the only line that's the same in the Swedish version - refers to a cab in the Swedish version. The song seems to me to be more about trying to leave someone or something, but to keep coming back ("Maybe tomorrow it won´t be here"), only to face the same things that made you leave, and each time you leave you're hoping that this time you'll be able to stay away permanently ("Maybe this time it won´t heal / Maybe this time it will bleed untill I´m free").

While they sound a bit suicidal, I'd say the last two lines are more about getting over something than killing yourself. It wouldn't be the first time Kent used the 'bleed to death' metaphor for emotional pain (it's used in Kevlarsjäl, for example).

And in case anyone is amused by such trivia, the track is 7:47 long on the album.