Just a song before I go, to whom it may concern.
Travelling twice the speed of sound, it's easy to get burned.
When the shows were over, we had to get back home,
and when we opened up the door I had to be alone.
She helped me with my suitcase, she stands before my eyes,
driving me to the airport and to the friendly skies.
Going through security I held her for so long.
She finally looked at me in love, and she was gone.
Just a song before I go, a lesson to be learned.
Travelling twice the speed of sound, it's easy to get burned.


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    it was indeed written in a short time for a bet with his low level drugs dealer, you can see him say it in interview on YouTube. So no time for very complicated meanings. I think it’s about an affair he has while on tour. Not lots of affairs as he says he ‘held her for so long’ , he sounds sad, and he was going home. He had to be seen to be alone when the doors of the plane opened at his destination, obviously because he was married. So the affair lost out to the marriage. But interesting that he says that travelling at twice the speed of sound makes it easy to get burned. He is the one doing the travelling so the inference is that he got burned and was sad to leave the lady who was in love with him.

    haulinoateson September 05, 2018   Link

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