Nobody commented?
Ok, i'll do. Its pretty obvious that this song is about his flight to Minneapolis after his wife told him about how she had been cheating on him...
Compare these lines from the interview, where he speaks about that with the lines of the song:
"Once Furstenfeld got to the airport, things got even worse. “I remember getting on the airplane, but I don’t remember anything else. I supposedly walked off the plane in Minneapolis and asked for a police officer to assist me because I was going to get back onto the plane and hurt someone. I don’t remember any of that except for getting patted-down and being put into a police car.
“The cop then tells me that I’m going to a state hospital. My father is a retired police office and had been on the phone with them and he explained that I wasn’t a threat. He also told them that I had bi-polar and blackout issues in the past when I had lost control of certain situations. We’re talking about my little girl asking me, ‘Where are you going? When are you coming back?’ All of those emotions blew up on the plane. So I ended up staying in the hospital for some time.”
And the lines:
"No joke took a breath and then awoke
I was standing in an airport looking like a joke
Saying "Sir, can you help me?
Ma'am could you please?"
So they led me to the pay phone
Flaggin' down the police
"Mr. Officer I know who I am. But the rest of me,
My memory, I just don't understand
I do know that I'm unsafe, man with a plan,
Of gettin' on a plane
Fly away to kill a man"
Nobody commented? Ok, i'll do. Its pretty obvious that this song is about his flight to Minneapolis after his wife told him about how she had been cheating on him... Compare these lines from the interview, where he speaks about that with the lines of the song:
"Once Furstenfeld got to the airport, things got even worse. “I remember getting on the airplane, but I don’t remember anything else. I supposedly walked off the plane in Minneapolis and asked for a police officer to assist me because I was going to get back onto the plane and hurt someone. I don’t remember any of that except for getting patted-down and being put into a police car.
“The cop then tells me that I’m going to a state hospital. My father is a retired police office and had been on the phone with them and he explained that I wasn’t a threat. He also told them that I had bi-polar and blackout issues in the past when I had lost control of certain situations. We’re talking about my little girl asking me, ‘Where are you going? When are you coming back?’ All of those emotions blew up on the plane. So I ended up staying in the hospital for some time.”
And the lines: "No joke took a breath and then awoke I was standing in an airport looking like a joke Saying "Sir, can you help me? Ma'am could you please?" So they led me to the pay phone Flaggin' down the police "Mr. Officer I know who I am. But the rest of me, My memory, I just don't understand I do know that I'm unsafe, man with a plan, Of gettin' on a plane Fly away to kill a man"