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Have you ever wanted to disappear
And join a monastery
Go out and preach on Manic Street?
Who will I be when I wake up next to a stranger
On a passenger plane?
(Passenger plane)
Oh,
[Chorus]
Permanent jet lag
Please take me back (please take be back)
Please take be back
(Oh) I'm a stray dog sick
Please let me in (please let me in)
The mad keys tripping
Singing vows before we exchange smoke rings
Give me a pen
Call me Mr. Benzedrine
But don't let the doctor in
I wanna blow off steam and
Call me Mr. Benzedrine (Mr. Benzedrine)
But don't let the doctor, don't let the doctor in
It feels like fourteen karats but no clarity
When I look at the man who would be king
The man who would be king goes to the
Desert to sing war his dad rehearsed
Came back with flags on coffins and said
We won, oh, we won
[Chorus]
Give me a pen
Call me Mr. Benzedrine
But don't let the doctor in
I wanna blow off steam and
Call me Mr. Benzedrine (Mr. Benzedrine)
But don't let the doctor, don't let the doctor in
Benzedrine
My, my, my Benzedrine
My Benzedrine now
My Benzedrine now
Only one more thing and that is the rest of the proof
Is on the television, on the
Call me Mr. Benzedrine
But don't let the doctor in
I wanna blow off steam and
Call me Mr. Benzedrine (Mr. Benzedrine)
But don't let the doctor, don't let the doctor in
Have you ever wanted to disappear?
It's not me, it's you
Actually, it's the taxidermy of you and me
Untie the balloons from around my neck and ground me
I'm just a racehorse on the track
Send me back to the glue factory
Always thought I'd float away
And never come back
But I've got enough miles on my card
To fly the boys home on my own
But you know me: I like being all alone
And keeping you all alone
And the charts are boring
And the kids are snoring
And the eagles in a sling
You say you're not listening
And I said I'm wishing
And I said, I said
And join a monastery
Go out and preach on Manic Street?
Who will I be when I wake up next to a stranger
On a passenger plane?
(Passenger plane)
Oh,
[Chorus]
Permanent jet lag
Please take me back (please take be back)
Please take be back
(Oh) I'm a stray dog sick
Please let me in (please let me in)
The mad keys tripping
Singing vows before we exchange smoke rings
Give me a pen
Call me Mr. Benzedrine
But don't let the doctor in
I wanna blow off steam and
Call me Mr. Benzedrine (Mr. Benzedrine)
But don't let the doctor, don't let the doctor in
It feels like fourteen karats but no clarity
When I look at the man who would be king
The man who would be king goes to the
Desert to sing war his dad rehearsed
Came back with flags on coffins and said
We won, oh, we won
[Chorus]
Give me a pen
Call me Mr. Benzedrine
But don't let the doctor in
I wanna blow off steam and
Call me Mr. Benzedrine (Mr. Benzedrine)
But don't let the doctor, don't let the doctor in
Benzedrine
My, my, my Benzedrine
My Benzedrine now
My Benzedrine now
Only one more thing and that is the rest of the proof
Is on the television, on the
Call me Mr. Benzedrine
But don't let the doctor in
I wanna blow off steam and
Call me Mr. Benzedrine (Mr. Benzedrine)
But don't let the doctor, don't let the doctor in
Have you ever wanted to disappear?
It's not me, it's you
Actually, it's the taxidermy of you and me
Untie the balloons from around my neck and ground me
I'm just a racehorse on the track
Send me back to the glue factory
Always thought I'd float away
And never come back
But I've got enough miles on my card
To fly the boys home on my own
But you know me: I like being all alone
And keeping you all alone
And the charts are boring
And the kids are snoring
And the eagles in a sling
You say you're not listening
And I said I'm wishing
And I said, I said
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"Who will I be when I wake up next to a stranger on a passenger plane?
Permanent jetlag, please take me back..."
Could be a reference to the beginning and the narrator's humdrum life and his existence from one airport to another.
And, "Have you ever wanted to disappear and join a monastery" reminds me of the formation of Project Mayhem.
"Don't let the doctor in, I wanna blow off steam..."
If you've seen the film or read the book, you know.
I'm writing an AP English paper on this song, so it's gotta be accurate. lol
And join a monastary
Go out and preach young addicts straight
and join a monestary
Go out and preach young addicts straight
"where will i be when i wake up next to a stranger
on a passenger plane, passenger plane"
I find this to be a reference to the people on a 9/11 plane.
"Permanent jetlag
Please take me back, please take be back"
Obviously a war grunt, you're always awake and hardly ever fully up because they're always working, they never actually were given a chance to go adapt to the time zone
"It feels like 14 carats but no clarity
When I look at the man who would be king
The man who would be king goes to the
desert THE SAME war his dad rehearsed
came back with flags on coffins and said
we won, oh, we won"
Obviously bush.
"ONLY ONE BOOK REALLY MATTERS is the rest of the proof
is on the television"
Lyric correction, and also because 9/11 was streamed on the news all the time when it happened, it was all over the place.
and join a monestary
Go out and preach on manic street"
--Almost positive this refers to Richie Edwards of the Manic Street Preachers mysteriously disappearing in 1995.
"it feels like 14 carats but no clarity
When I look at the man who would be king
The man who would be king goes to the
desert to sing war his dad rehearsed
came back with flags on coffins and said
we won, oh, we won"
--I agree this has to do with Bush returning to iraq, which is where Bush sr. started desert storm.
"Give me a pen
Call me Mr. Benzedrine
But don't let the doctor in"
--Benzedrine was a perscription drug which originally came in an inhaler but later came in a tablet.
Tablets are usually crushed and snorted, sometimes through a pen.
I think "don't let the doctor in" refers to a recreational use of the drug, instead of using it for what it's prescribed for.