Jefferson Airplane - Planes

[Nicolas_Fantich]

I remember Jefferson Airplane's 'We Built This City', but this one is a new one to me

I seriously cannot believe a 'credible' band can produce a song like this. Maybe that's why they disappeared from the scene after 'We Built This City'

Surely, it must be a parody of something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0gnnVcOLNc

"Planes"

I love Planes
Jet Aircraft
I love Planes
Jet Aircraft

He was just a little boy and he sat there in his school
And the little girl in the very next chair she thought he was so cool
And she watched him draw and draw
Planes and wings and flying things
Even during tests he'd keep on drawing
And his mother didn't want him and his father was always working so he
Just set his head to the center of the sky and dreamed of

FLYING at first like a leaf floating in the air
Now like an eagle soaring there
FLYING Great roaring engines now will lift my wings
Rockets now and spacecraft to the center of the sky

I'm getting ready for a great leap forward
Ready for a leap in the pool
Ready to touch the stars again
Ready to go back to school
Puttin' the pieces together
Put on your wings and come with me and
Fly fly fly to the center of the sky let's go
Flying

I love Planes
Experimental Aircraft
I love Planes
Jet Jet Jet Aircraft
Breaking through
The sound barrier
Into
Into the Light

And the little boy is still like a little boy and he met another
little girl and they made another little boy
And the new little guy still loves planes and flying things
And both his mother and father love him and
Hold him and hug him whenever he needs it and
Soon will send him lovingly to the center of the sky
and teach him

Flying and Dreaming and Visions
True Flying
I love Planes
Jet Aircraft
I love Planes
Sensual Aircraft

[Adam the Akrodude]

Pink Floyd's song Learning to Fly to me is the closest song that describes what it's like to fly.

Richard Bach of "Jonathan Livingstone Seagull" fame is the best writer to describe what it is to fly I think as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCB_INs2E24

Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth bound misfit - I!

Not so sure about Jefferson Airplane's lyrics. Still, I'm sure they came from the heart - someone had a major passion for aviation to string those lyrics together. Hey, any attempt to describe what it is to fly and how it feels gets my tick of approval.

Cheers

Adam

[Nicolas_Fantich]

Ah yes Adam - I was similarly taken by David Gilmour's/Pink Floyd's 'Learning to Fly' when that long awaited for album was released. That was one of the last vinyl albums I bought IIRC. I remember the Floyd well in Melbourne at the Tennis Centre which must have been over 20 years ago ?

Strangely, ISTR a slightly different video of this. Wasn't there one which actually showed an aircraft when the radio calls are made later in the song ? Brain cells elude my ATM.