Re: "Who's driving your plane?" lyrics
Date: September 12, 2007 08:50
with sssoul Wrote:
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> it doesn't seem like the most polished lyric the
> Glimmer Twins ever came up with, but:
> okay, to me the concept of the chick's knees &
> legs breaking down fits in with
> the context of "you can stand up if you try" - her
> legs are what she would stand on,
> but he anticipates seeing her break down instead.
> then he turns it into a play on words (sort of):
> "break down & cry" is the usual collocation, but
> he's in one of his nice moods. :E
>
> the other bit: "in with" means "accepted by", and
> "the faces" would be the current crop of hip
> society -
> The Beautiful People - whatever you want to call
> them. who go off to exclusive hip locales (their
> get-away places).
> so to me it sounds like this chick is fairly
> desperate to be in with this hip crowd, but she
> isn't.
>
> how's that?
Many many thanks, with sssoul.
It's a little bit more understanding, now.
But the syntax (in this song) is sometimes weird:
"You could stand on your head or maybe sing in your bed
If I said it was the thing to do" -That's OK-
"If you're in with the faces and their get-away places
'Cause they don't take no notice of you"
-Where is the principal proposition?-
btw, Is "who's driving your plane" an idiom for "who manages your life"?