The Smashing Pumpkins – The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)

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  My Interpretation:I Understand the "Disconnected by your smile" its feeling vague and pretty much Disconected to see other people smile and be happy

  Flag TAMASUPERSTARon June 16, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:Actually, I believe everyone here is wrong on this song.
  This song was actually written about the Pumpkins drummer, Jimmie Chamberlain!
  
  During the Melancholy tour on 1996, Chamberlain and touring keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin (who's sister is Lisa Melvoin from Prince's Revolution), were shooting up heroin in a New York hotel room that resulted in the overdose death of Melvoin on July 11th and subsequent firing of Chamberlain on July 17th.
  
  The remainder of that tour on drums was filled by Matt Cameron from Soundgarden and Matt Walker of Filter.
  
  During the recording of Melancholy, the Pumpkins recorded over a hundred tracks, some of them rocked a lot harder and sounded better, but somehow didn't make it on the final cut for that double album.
  
  If you listen to the song "Pastichio Medley" from the Zero EP, you can pick out the medley of "The Aeroplane Flies High" which started out as a song with a different name. Corgan went on to record "Aeroplane" after the tragic, and very stupid death of Jonathan Melvoin and Chamberlain's betrayal of the band with that incident clearly in mind. :-)

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  General Comment:all i gave to you is "lost" i think, is the right lyrics

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  General Comment:Actually, I believe everyone here is wrong on this song.
  This song was actually written about the Pumpkins drummer, Jimmie Chamberlain!
  
  During the Melancholy tour on 1996, Chamberlain and touring keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin (who's sister is Lisa Melvoin from Prince's Revolution), were shooting up heroin in a New York hotel room that resulted in the overdose death of Melvoin on July 11th and subsequent firing of Chamberlain on July 17th.
  
  The remainder of that tour on drums was filled by Matt Cameron from Soundgarden and Matt Walker of Filter.
  
  During the recording of Melancholy, the Pumpkins recorded over a hundred tracks, some of them rocked a lot harder and sounded better, but somehow didn't make it on the final cut for that double album.
  
  If you listen to the song "Pastichio Medley" from the Zero EP, you can pick out the medley of "The Aeroplane Flies High" which started out as a song with a different name. Corgan went on to record "Aeroplane" after the tragic, and very stupid death of Jonathan Melvoin and Chamberlain's betrayal of the band with that incident clearly in mind. :-)

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  General Comment:I am absolutely in love with this song.

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  General Comment:It's about flying to a friends funeral and you having a conversation with them in your head. Telling them you are already starting forget some memories you had. Sounds like it might be possible that the friend might have had quite different spiritual beliefs and ideas about the afterlife than the speaker

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  General Comment:I agree with SiameseDreamer26. That's how I have always interpreted it.

  Flag gabew75on August 22, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:black wings really are all over the world.
  it reminds me of jesus screaming 'save yourselves' in jesus christ superstar - i think there was a great effort to show someone the way but you can 'lead a horse to water' as they say. i really hope she finds a way

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  General Comment:This song is amazing.....my friend and I used to drive to school jamming to this song every morning for like a month straight.....I swear this song throws you into a zombie like trance where the two of us wouldnt utter a word until the song finished.
  
  I really think this song has to do with god. "black wings carry me so high...up to meet you in the sky" I think this his blackened heart is reaching out to god........"what you promised me I hope will set you free"......billy followed the ways of religion and feels betrayed and holds god accountable.
  
  As with most pumpkins songs.. this song can mean something different to everyone....which is why corgan is such a genius lyricist

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  General Comment:I don't know what is this song about but I once listened to this song on an airplane and I know for sure that Billy wrote it on an airplane. During the spoken part in the beginning he describes everything you feel when you are flying and looking out the window. "I really don't want to look stupid when I'm sleeping" (a lot of people don't like to sleep in public places), "I never really liked sunny days" (the sun is just so bright up there), "the black wings just reach out to me over a distance" (I think it is referring to the fact that you are always looking at the wings just beneath your feet), "I can feel the wind from the wings, I see the clouds and I feel the ocean with my feet" (you can actually hear and feel in your feet the vibration of the air), "and I'm home again" (maybe he was coming home, I'm not sure about this), "It requires an ability to judge distance" (When you are up there it's impossible to measure the real distance you are from the ground and the distance between everything you see). I love this song so much...

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