flight 180 Lyrics

Lyric discussion by jermstead 

Cover art for flight 180 lyrics by Bishop Allen

I think this song sounds like of course the plane ride home after being so far away maybe on tour. Ready to stand still for a moment. The first four verses are are the plane and then it goes to where he has been and describing what it felt like.

He is discribing what it feels like to be rushed and to be away from home and how we are all lonely and we put on masks to hide be hind. The stourtist says one think,but she means another. The same for the captain, and the man in the middle, "but i know he means if you feel like dancing dance with me" touch me i am human i am not a statue. In the title "180" that is the reference to a complete turn around. Maybe this means that he had time to reflect and there are some things he wants to change, or he finaly sees the lights where his friends are and know it will be different soon.

My take on this whole thing is a classic suicide song, of course only someone as twisted as me could ccome up with that... allow me to explain. A man is sick of his hometown and decides to take a trip to some place more exciting, and what better place to go than Rockefella. He's there just for a vacation, but he decides to hit up a party in Rockefella center, and he just so happens to find a wonderful girl who asks him to dance. She gives him the night of his life, they fall madly in love, adn he...