Lyric discussion by Kyomara 

Cover art for Pacific 231 lyrics by Burning Airlines

There are too many mistakes in these lyrics:

"Is your fragility wanting so badly to be crushed you'd leave it up to me to do the crushing?" Not "fertility."

"The new sincerity," not "Through new sincerity."

"We're not careening off the rails," not "cleaning off the rails."

"I never dreamed I'd learn to love the taste of bitter fictions, the ring of contradictions..." not "another dream I learned to love..."

"Is that devotion?" Not "is that delusion?"

"Unsubtle parody, poor fit and reconditioned parts. The very engine is sick from the motion," not "i'm told appearently...etc."

"And now we're learning all about the charity of cost, and we could do without the education," not "and now we're letting up...etc."

And I agree with brianta69. I used to think maybe this was about the breakup of a band, but it could really be any kind of relationship.