Burning Airlines Give You So Much More Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Rexcat 

Cover art for Burning Airlines Give You So Much More lyrics by Brian Eno

I’m surprised no one has commented on this before, as another song on “Taking Tiger Mountain by strategy”, The theme of this song is doing drugs… If you are Crossleged on the floor, obviously smoking something (that’s the burning part) and it’s from China and it’s 1974 it’s undoubtedly opium. It’s burning airlines because she’s on a trip, into that dreamy world that is an opium high.

I like all the songs in this album, and have listened to them since the album was released in 1974. But this one and “the fat lady from Limbourg are my favorite…

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