Spitfire Lyrics

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Cover art for Spitfire lyrics by Prodigy, The

Spitfire was the British plane that helped win the war, to us Brits it's a symbol of defiance and fighting against the odds.

To say if I were in world war 2 they'd call me spitfire is like saying "if I were a golfer i'd be tiger woods" - it's about being top of your game

You are right. Also the spitfire was created under the philosophy small but powerful and efficient. It was among the fastest airplanes of its day. It made a huge difference per plane, yet there were not many compared against the more standardized Hurricane. Still its symbolic work was akin to the US Mustang. It gave people hope in the same way that Achilles would have for the ancient Greeks. We as people are always small. Thus to say 'If I was in World War II, they'd call me Spitfire" is to say that I may be small, but I am...