Aeroplane

The lyrics present music as a powerful escape for someone who feels lonely, melancholy, and emotionally worn down. The speaker enjoys experiences that mix pleasure with pain, and seems to rely on music to lift him above sadness. Yet this relief is unstable: he longs for love, fears becoming numb, and describes the song’s effect in startlingly intense terms.

“Music is my aeroplane” suggests that music can carry the speaker away from ordinary troubles, almost as a plane lifts someone into the air. “Before I start to rust” is an image of becoming inactive or emotionally stuck. The rear-view mirror may represent looking back at painful memories, while the claim that he can make them disappear hints at wanting to escape the past rather than face it.

The song leaves the source of the speaker’s pain unclear. The “song she wrote” may be connected to a particular person, or it may stand for music itself; either way, a single note can feel both freeing and dangerous. Images of floating, choking, and dying show how strongly art affects him, but they need not be read literally. Overall, the lyrics suggest that music offers comfort while also exposing the speaker to feelings he cannot fully control.