anonymous May 12th, 2006 04:43AM  
I heard that this song is about how Richard Patrick (the lead singer) has been known to sleep walk naked. It just so happened that he fell asleep on a plane one time and stripped down and walked around naked.

anonymous September 26th, 2006 09:48PM  
Up until I read the second verse I was sure that it was about a dream, notice how he says "could you take my picture?, cause I won't remember" and when he says "I feel so real", hinting that he's not real, but he feels like it.

zombiechick9 October 10th, 2006 04:38PM  
This song is about how the lead singer got drunk on a plane and got naked and somebody took pictures of him.

brielle February 26th, 2007 06:21PM  
This song is about the lead singer. He used to strip in his sleep, and one day he fell asleep on a plane and well...

He wouldn't remember it because he was sleeping thus giving you "could you take a picture because I won't remember"

anonymous July 5th, 2008 01:09PM  
Except for the incest thing, I think you are all right in one sense.

CHAD October 1st, 2008 03:37PM  
I saw an interview with Richard Patrick after this song was released. It may have been VH1, or MTV, can't exactly remember. Maybe someone can search archives and find it. I do remember that his dad was in the interview discussing Richards "issues" with him.The song seems to be about a drunken episode on a plane flight. I think the issues with his dad may be more of an implied disappointment nature. Perhaps his dad had expressed concern over his drinking, or maybe his dad was embarrassed by some of his escapades on Filter tours. That's just speculation, why not ask Richard himself. I'm sure he would return an email eventually, and set the record straight.

anonymous April 5th, 2009 11:02AM  
This song is about drug or alcohol abuse. The artist used "airplane" to equal high (from drugs or alcohol). I didn't realize until I saw the video. When people are drunk or high their skin is bare, indicating they can't hide their problems. "Take a picture" because I won't remember what I've said or done when I'm sober again. "Can everyone agree that no one should be left alone" means loneliness led to the abuse. "Hey dad what do you think about your son now" (now that you know about my problem). I think you must be an addict or know one to feel this way about this song. The video is incredibly symbolic if you can find. His house under the see is where he is when he's high and everyone keeps looking for him. Water keeps rising to indicate it's becoming an increasingly more dangerous situation.

anonymous April 27th, 2009 01:01PM  
To me I thought of a baby in the womb. The airplane being carried around in the Mom. My skin is theirs would be skin of both the father and mother. Take a picture I won't remember refering to who would remember anything at that age. Lastly Dad how do you like me now, being that the Dad might be the first to see his son. This is probably not what the song is about, but it is a beautiful interpretation.

Pyrogenic April 29th, 2009 11:46PM  
Well, I could always be wrong... but I hear a song about a hypothetical discussion about papparazzi - a social testament to the moral problems of being a public figure.

First - I hear "Away go my airplane" not "awake on my airplane"... I don't know if the words were published on their album or what - but the accepted version is not what I hear him singing. In the video, the plane crashes - and he is left to fin (pardon the pun) for himself in the sea. The airplane WAS his privacy, before it was lost to publicity (the sea).

I feel like a newborn - kicking and screaming... being in the public eye, with photographers et. al. Is like a newborn, unable to control his surroundings, regardless of the kicking and screaming trying to tell people they wish to be left alone sometimes...

Could you want to take my picture, because I won't remember? - a question to a photographer wondering "is this what you have convinced yourself is justification for your intrusion into my life?" (how bizarre)

Could everyone agree that they should not be left alone? - a question that says "is this what you would like to believe is the case, mr. photographer?"

I don't believe in no sanctity, or your privacy - what must be the position of the common papparazzi - they just don't care (and they also don't believe in hypocracy - they don't believe they would be in the wrong to demand privacy even though they don't grant it to others.)

Hey dad, what do you think about your song now - I don't know if this is really what he's saying, but it tells me the core song was drafted by his father, or his father lived a life of loss of privacy, and this song, and his son's work regards the difficulty with this song.

This is what the song, and the video both say to me. The plane (his privacy) is lost (wrecks into the sea). The people survive, albeit now swimming in the sea of publicity, no longer their own private life - it invades everything, including their home, and their friends and relatives - it's possible to occasionally float above (looking away from it all, feeling more real) but eventually it swallows you back up.

Remember, they ALL go into the drink, including the woman who must jump into it to be with her man.