This song is about still feeling connected with the world,
The narrator has had times when he feels lonely, but this flight is bringing him back in connection with civilization.
The mundane interactions with the flight attendant, pilot, guy in the middle seat....are all he needs to see that he belongs in this world and that he does in fact have friends. His is able to relate his feeling of belonging among the people of the plane to the entire world as he realizes that the world is really just tons of mundane interactions like this over and over. The lights he sees below the plane remind him of this. All of the lights below are more or less the same, therefore no one should feel out of place.
The stanza I really love is the third one. He refers to people he actually knows, that possibly may have caused his loneliness, and realizes that they all have to go through life too (the light shines on everyone the same). Reminds me of John Donne's For Whom the Bell Tolls. The fact that everyone can relate to eachother is what the speaker considers love, and declares he wants to be a more positive part of the world ("I'm coming home")
This song is about still feeling connected with the world,
The narrator has had times when he feels lonely, but this flight is bringing him back in connection with civilization.
The mundane interactions with the flight attendant, pilot, guy in the middle seat....are all he needs to see that he belongs in this world and that he does in fact have friends. His is able to relate his feeling of belonging among the people of the plane to the entire world as he realizes that the world is really just tons of mundane interactions like this over and over. The lights he sees below the plane remind him of this. All of the lights below are more or less the same, therefore no one should feel out of place.
The stanza I really love is the third one. He refers to people he actually knows, that possibly may have caused his loneliness, and realizes that they all have to go through life too (the light shines on everyone the same). Reminds me of John Donne's For Whom the Bell Tolls. The fact that everyone can relate to eachother is what the speaker considers love, and declares he wants to be a more positive part of the world ("I'm coming home")
Unbelievable song.