Not The Red Baron Lyrics

Lyric discussion by daneypops 

Cover art for Not The Red Baron lyrics by Tori Amos

I think the reason Tori kept the Dutch conversation in at the start is that she's like a radio operator in the war, and she's listening to the communciations on the radio about the fighting, and she's trying to make it out but it's not clear, so she has to guess from the tone of it - 'think I got the message figured [she's not sure] another pilot down'. it's all frantic and hard to get a handle on.

This was my take too. She's an allied radio op, and picks up the radio broadcast of a dutch pilot going down. He's calmly relaying his coordinates before meeting his destiny, and she's powerless to soothe or help him.

Either that or "more isolation on the piano floor boards" if they're were the sound engineers lol.