For me, Ellie's singing about how she's desperately in love, but she's clumsy with it.- 'two left feet, emergency.' So she feels that the person she's in love with won't love her back. She's angry with herself.
Then as the song goes on, she's trying to 'smooth [herself] out' and make herself more appealing.
'Take the rage and smooth it out'- stop being childish, make him love you. Make yourself better.
'Stick to my skin'-please love me back, come to me and hold me.
'Paper mache face to live in'- hide what you really are so he'll like you back.
'Read every page'- she's seen what she's doing to herself.
'You'll never have to feel that way again'- see the beauty in yourself, see that it's not working because it's not meant to happen. So if she realises that she can eventually overcome her feelings or 'fighter plane'.
In the last verses she's trying to overcome this desperate love, she's getting hurt by it. She's 'sold [her] soul' by trying to change herself for someone. By the last verse, she's realised that the love's gone away because she's realised it's not meant to be.
'I have muted the screams'- I've stopped the screaming inside, the pain that I felt when I had feelings for this boy.
'I've broken the fall'- she stopped herself before she got rejected.
I know it's probably called 'Fighter plane' for a different reason like she's fighting for the boy; fighting herself. But I like to think that this love's a secret, just for herself, and it's a code word she has instead of 'love', because maybe she's not bery open about her feelings.
For me, Ellie's singing about how she's desperately in love, but she's clumsy with it.- 'two left feet, emergency.' So she feels that the person she's in love with won't love her back. She's angry with herself. Then as the song goes on, she's trying to 'smooth [herself] out' and make herself more appealing. 'Take the rage and smooth it out'- stop being childish, make him love you. Make yourself better. 'Stick to my skin'-please love me back, come to me and hold me. 'Paper mache face to live in'- hide what you really are so he'll like you back.
'Read every page'- she's seen what she's doing to herself. 'You'll never have to feel that way again'- see the beauty in yourself, see that it's not working because it's not meant to happen. So if she realises that she can eventually overcome her feelings or 'fighter plane'.
In the last verses she's trying to overcome this desperate love, she's getting hurt by it. She's 'sold [her] soul' by trying to change herself for someone. By the last verse, she's realised that the love's gone away because she's realised it's not meant to be. 'I have muted the screams'- I've stopped the screaming inside, the pain that I felt when I had feelings for this boy. 'I've broken the fall'- she stopped herself before she got rejected.
I know it's probably called 'Fighter plane' for a different reason like she's fighting for the boy; fighting herself. But I like to think that this love's a secret, just for herself, and it's a code word she has instead of 'love', because maybe she's not bery open about her feelings.