4. “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” by John Denver
Who may have two thumbs and had written a folk that is bittersweet about hurtling through the stratosphere in a giant aluminum pipe at 600 kilometers each hour?
Listed here is why it appears intimate:
“Leaving on a Jet air air air Plane” is a lovely track. And impressive with its loveliness because jet planes were still kind of the latest at the time it absolutely was written.
This would be sort of like singing, “I’m a scoooting away on my hoverboooooard,” but in a way that’s somehow still folksy and heartbreaking and singable by 9-year-olds at summer camp to a modern ear. Quite difficult to complete!
The truth is — he hates to get! He simply hates it! We all know this, because he informs us he hates it. And why would he hate to get if he don’t love their partner just that much? Continue reading “Which, i guess, will be the point.”