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Awake on my airplane
Awake on my airplane
My skin is bare
My skin is theirs
Awake on my airplane
Awake on my airplane
My skin is bare
My skin is theirs
I feel like newborn
And I feel like a newborn
Awake on my airplane
Awake on my airplane
I feel so real
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember - yeah
I don't believe in
I don't believe in your sanctity your prophecy
I don't believe in
I don't believe in sanctity or hypocrisy
Can everyone agree that no one should be left alone
Can everyone agree that they should not be left alone
And I feel like a newborn
And I feel like a newborn (kicking and screaming)
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember - yeah
Hey dad what do you think about your son now?
Hey dad what do you think about your son now?
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember - yeah
Awake on my airplane
My skin is bare
My skin is theirs
Awake on my airplane
Awake on my airplane
My skin is bare
My skin is theirs
I feel like newborn
And I feel like a newborn
Awake on my airplane
Awake on my airplane
I feel so real
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember - yeah
I don't believe in
I don't believe in your sanctity your prophecy
I don't believe in
I don't believe in sanctity or hypocrisy
Can everyone agree that no one should be left alone
Can everyone agree that they should not be left alone
And I feel like a newborn
And I feel like a newborn (kicking and screaming)
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember - yeah
Hey dad what do you think about your son now?
Hey dad what do you think about your son now?
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember
Could you take my picture
Cause I won't remember - yeah
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Track duration: 06:04
"Take a Picture" as written by Richard Michael Patrick
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group
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But the second meaning of a lyric is what it means to the person who values the song. Sometimes that second meaning is close to the intended meaning. But sometimes this personal meaning goes off in another direction. A lot of poets and songwriters insist that personal meanings are as important as original intended meaning.
I find a lot of posts at this site are actually people sharing their personal meaning, even if they don't distinguish between the two meanings. Here's my personal meaning for this song.
When I hear this song or watch the video, I experience intense nostalgia. I don't mean just remembering some period in the past fondly. I'm talking an existential connection between the me of the present moment and a time of my life that is gone where I experience a deep spiritual and emotional nexus that combines both remembering what what was real and intense loss because it no longer is real and is no longer experienced and not fully remembered. This, for me, is both soul piercing sadness and elevating joy at the same time. I very much want to feel this but it also very much hurts to feel it.
Three things really activate this intense state. Scent, music and images. For instance the smell of cut grass on a hot day takes me right back to my teenage years while not taking me fully enough back, thus I have this experience.
The music of this song, now over a decade later, has this powerful effect on me. It's like a magic spell activating the time period when my adult sons were teenagers and we were evolving from them liking my music to me liking theirs. But the words, for me, have a personal meaning that is all about this nostalgia.
You see when that past was present I was "Awake" to it, My skin was "bare" to it, even belonging to it, being "theirs," all that was around me including the other people who were there. Here's something weird about this experience. It doesn't matter if back then it was a good or bad experience, it didn't matter if what was happening to me was due to others' scorn or hypocrisy or sanctity. I was awake to it all and now I'm not. Then it was "real" and I was "newborn" into that reality, but now it's gone.
So what I needed to make it somehow real now is a picture, a storing of the moment, because "I won't remember" it fully, it will be lost fully. Thus I will have this nostalgia.
A lot of nostalgia like this for me is a mix of either when I was a child/youth, in which a vital part of my life was relating to my parents, or when my children were young, in which a vital part of my lfie was relating as a parent. Either way the refrain "Hey dad what do you think of your son now" captures all that, both of them, even though I'm a woman. The entire experience includes the then and the now and what would my dad then think now of me his daughter and what do I now think now about my son(s) then.
So that's my personal meaning of the song. I think it is congruent with the original meaning about a specific moment in Richard Patrick's life, because I think he also realized the same existential nexus between that specific moment and the rest of his existence afterwards. But even if it's just my personal meaning, it's still my personal meaning.
" Awake on My Airplane "..." My ", meaning his own personal airplane ",a staple of suucess in society.
"My skin is bare, my skin is theirs" <~~~Although he is successful, he ultimately still belongs to the record label..
" feel like a newborn " <~~~~~His newly found success is a " new " to life to him...A newborn with a new adventure..
"Could you take my picture
'Cause I won't remember" <~~~~~~~He knows this new found success as a rock star will probably be over quickly. Most rock stars careers are filled with drugs, alcohol and forgotton experiences..He's asking someone to " take a picture " because after this new career comes and goes, " he won't remember "
"I don't believe in, I don't believe in
Your sanctity " <~~~~This is addressed to his father. He's basically saying, " You weren't so perfect "
Which is proven by the next statement,
" Could everyone agree that
No one should be left alone " <~~~~~~~Apparantly his Father was not around and left him alone as a child.
hence "hey, dad what do you think about your son now"
but it could have multiple meanings. .
"Awake on my airplane, awake on my airplane"
- Airplane refers to his journey through life. He is awake now because he is breaking away from his childhood becoming a man...
"My skin is bare, my skin is theirs"
- his skin is bare because he is vulnerable, it is 'theirs' because he has not been thinking for himself .. as in a child..
"I feel like a newborn"
- this is referring to his life realizations - that which seems so obvious now because he is awakening
Awake on my airplane
Awake on my airplane
"I feel so real"
- Finally thinking for himself
"Could you take my picture
'Cause I won't remember"
- this could be referring to the grip that his parents have on him and how he may be getting sucked into their thoughts and their needs when he is with them.
"I don't believe in, I don't believe in
Your sanctity
Your prophecy
I don't believe in I don't believe in
Sanctity - a hypocrisy"
- this could be his sudden epiphany regarding his parents and how he was raised. Specifically, their expectations of him. This could be part of his awakening - that he just realized this about his parents.
"Could everyone agree that
No one should be left alone
Could everyone agree that
They should not be left alone"
- This could mean that he is saying that he still doesn't want to be left alone even though he has come to a disagreement with his parents..that he maybe expects them to not agree with him, that maybe during his childhood he never had a voice, but now that he does, he is fearful they will disown him.
'And I feel like a newborn
And I feel like a newborn
Kicking and screaming'
- Now it is changing to his realization that he is now disobedient - thus the term 'kicking and screaming' - not agreeing with his parents and what he has always known he 'should be'
"Ah, hey dad what do you think about your son now
Aw, hey dad what do you think about your son now"
-this is self explanatory given the above interpretations
"Could you take my picture
'Cause I won't remember"
- In this last lyric - as the song evolved, he has no intention of speaking up to his dad, therefore, he needs a picture so he can remember his strength.
This song is about ( or could be about) someone who has finally found success as a rock star..Although he has found success, we can tell by the author that he was " left alone " as a child and although he is now successful, (even has his own personal airplane), the fact that he was left alone as a child is still painful to him..
" Awake on My Airplane "..." My ", meaning his own personal airplane ",a staple of suucess in society.
"My skin is bare, my skin is theirs" <~~~Although he is successful, he ultimately still belongs to the record label..
" feel like a newborn " <~~~~~His newly found success is a " new " to life to him...A newborn with a new adventure..
"Could you take my picture
'Cause I won't remember" <~~~~~~~He knows this new found success as a rock star will probably be over quickly. Most rock stars careers are filled with drugs, alcohol and blurry, forgotton experiences..He's asking someone to " take a picture " because after this new career comes and goes, " he won't remember "
"I don't believe in, I don't believe in
Your sanctity " <~~~~This is addressed to his father. He's basically saying, " You weren't so perfect "
Which is proven by the next statement,
" Could everyone agree that
No one should be left alone " <~~~~~~~Apparantly his Father was not around and left him alone as a child.
Could everyone agree that no one should be left alone?
So good, makes me feel hopeful, and this song is just a happy in the moment kind of song. And the idea of taking a picture to remember that you did feel happy at one time in your life. It kind of gives you something to hold on to.