Wicker Plane Lyrics

Lyric discussion by yankees27 

Cover art for Wicker Plane lyrics by State Radio

I think ManInTheHall's thoughts are pretty dead on.

As for the line "The boy said the place you come from that's where I'll be from too", personally I think this means that after "just a few hours" of flying on the wicker plane (a symbolization for being behind the times), the boy will find himself in the same position as the pilot, lost in a world that feels foreign to him. I think the point of this is that society is changing too rapidly to keep up with, to the point where it alienates the people who can't keep up, or don't want to.

As for the ending, "Now you're in a lovely garden, it's such a lovely garden", and "Wherever I am Lord, I know where I am Lord", I'm not really sure what it means but I'll take a shot. It seems to me that the pilot is in a garden, but doesn't know exactly where he is. However, he says "I know where I am Lord, because the garden is something that is familiar to him, unlike the skyscrapers and the city that is foreign to him. He says, "It's such a lovely garden" because he he feels comfortable there and he enjoys living in a more natural world, uninterrupted by all of the technological advances that are basically forced upon people living in modern society.

So in the end, I think it is meant to show how fast the world is changing, and how society imposes these changes upon people who may not even want to live in a technological world, and as a result they feel alienated in the very world they live in.