The mission is dangerous... Maybe IRA, maybe drugs, etc... The crooks need a plane/pilot, so hire and flatter him as The Swallow... He believes the crooks when they say that, as anonymous hired pilot, his role will be quick, easy and less involved... He is recklessly excited... "I'm home before the morning" ... However, she does not trust the situation and thinks he has been set up, or is too gullible, naive and weak... She appeals to him, adding the empty threat of letting the law know... But he is recklessly determined...
Maybe at the end of the song, she is crying out to him, "Let me go (in your place!)" ... to swap places (à la Running Up That Hill)... She is so anxious for him that she is prepared to put herself in his place because she thinks she is stronger and more capable... and he is not a swallow!
The mission is dangerous... Maybe IRA, maybe drugs, etc... The crooks need a plane/pilot, so hire and flatter him as The Swallow... He believes the crooks when they say that, as anonymous hired pilot, his role will be quick, easy and less involved... He is recklessly excited... "I'm home before the morning" ... However, she does not trust the situation and thinks he has been set up, or is too gullible, naive and weak... She appeals to him, adding the empty threat of letting the law know... But he is recklessly determined...
Maybe at the end of the song, she is crying out to him, "Let me go (in your place!)" ... to swap places (à la Running Up That Hill)... She is so anxious for him that she is prepared to put herself in his place because she thinks she is stronger and more capable... and he is not a swallow!