Jason Mraz – Plane

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  General Comment:This song is one of those i like to sing over and over and over. i absolutely love it! i kind of understand what everyone else is saying about it being a long distance relationship BUT i also think that maybe he's mad at the person. is it only me?

  Flag HMichelleon April 08, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:OK, that wasn't my most intelligent/relevant post, so let me try something more in depth:
  
  In the first stanza, Jason says "Well, I'm nobody," while using the pointless if not outright unhealthy security extremes to suggest sluggishness, depression, just murking his way through life. Also, as he does throughout the rest of the song, he's telling "honey" that he can see his/her house from here and will remember where the love was found, but this time it's fairly melodramatic, empty, blase, casual, like he's in a dead-end relationship that they're both pretending is still romantic.
  
  In the next stanza, "You make me somebody," while sounding more upbeat, more happy and excited about the airport than last time, implying that he found somebody to be with, even temporarily, that he felt a deeper connection with. This is also when he start saying "I can see your house from here..." with more emotion, like this relationship he just started (behind his soon-to-be-ex's back*?) is so much more meaningful than his last one.
  
  (*Gracefully unnamed and feeling guilty for the luck/ and the look that you gave me: feels guilty about cheating but empowered by not being able to be found out?)
  
  Next stanza, "Here I'm tumbling down for you," while using images on being cut up, eaten and crawled through to suggest that his new relationship is worse than his old one, as in actually damaging to him instead of simply pointless. Also, he mentions toward the end that "maybe I'll build my house on your cloud," giving the impression that he fantasizes about the relationship surviving but that it is impossible in a real world, that his last resort would send him crashing to the ground from miles in the air. (He also starts saying "If the plane goes down" a LOT more.) Also, while he says d*** about every other word for most of the song, this becomes the first time he says d*** YOU, implying the relationship has gotten incredibly aggressive, antagonistic, confrontational, and then never says "I'll remember where the love was found" again.

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    Somebody may have analyzed my comment to the point that I tried not to use pronouns for "honey" except for the deliberately-ambiguous "his/her." Hey, why couldn't he be gay/bi? This isn't Talibani Afghanistan or The Puritan Colonies of America

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    very well thought out, and accurate, thanks.

    Flag jasonloveron December 22, 2010  
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  General Comment:Has anybody seen the final destination movies? SciFi channel seems to love them, so i've seen FD2 and the first half of FD1. I'm just thinking that since "Highway to Hell" from AC/DC was amazing/perfect on the radio right before the huge pile-up in 2, was this song mentioned before the plane explosion in 1?

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  General Comment:the real meaning to this song is so sweet. in an interview jason explains how he was dating someone he met while touring so it was long distance and they could usually only meet for a day or two. this song came about after a 24 hr meeting with her before they were both flying off to wherever the had to go. jason said they would text a lot since they were so busy and always apart and when he got on the plane this time he was missing her more than usual and he sent her a text that said "if the plane goes down know that i loved you"

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    DAMN.

    Flag kelseysoccer8on May 18, 2010  
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  General Comment:Man, this song is crazy-amazing.
  I know this isn't what the song means, for me this song means...
  Having met a girl while on vacation or something, and you two become good friends (probably boyfriend-girlfriend). And you two do not live anywhere close to each other (for me, I am separated by an entire Atlantic from the girl that I met...) so that just sucks. I know the lyrics seem to go much deeper, but that's exactly what I get from it (mostly because I am in that situation).
  
  Danke!

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