Leaving on a jetplane
I promptly did a search for the song on Google, my all time favourite search engine and located a link for downloading it free. ["song title + mp3 + free"] Perhaps it's the rainy weather that has made me in the mood to listen to a sad song.
Chantal KreviazukLeaving on a Jetplane by Chantal Kreviazuk
All my bags are packed. I'm ready to go
I'm standing here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breakin'
This early mornin'
The taxi's waitin'
He's blowin' his horn
Already I'm so lonesome I could die
*So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
Cause I'm leaving on a jetplane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe I hate to go...
Ah...ah...
There's so many times I've let you down
So many times I've played around
I tell you now they don't mean a thing
Every place I go, I think of you
Every song I sing, I sing for you
When I come back I'll wear your wedding ring
* Chorus
Now the time has come to leave you
One more time let me kiss you
Close your eyes I'll be on my way
Dream about the days to come
When I won't have to leave alone
About the times that I won't have to say...
* Chorus
I'm leaving on a jetplane... (x many times till fade away)
This song actually reminds me of my pre-uni days at International College (IC),Penang in 1999, six years ago. The cover version by Canadian musician, Chantal Kreviazuk was released about then, around 1998-99 while the original version was by the late John Denver, released way earlier.
Hunky Ben AffleckIt also reminds me of one of my favourite movies of all time, Armageddon, where this song was played when Ben Affleck was blasting off in a spaceship for the mission, leaving Liv Tyler behind, not sure if he would ever see her again.
"Will I ever see you again?"
Also of a friend who told me that this song was his parent's special song. It held special significance for them becase his parents had a long distance relationship when his mum left for further studies and his dad would strum this song on the guitar for her. Sounds fairytale-like sweet dosen't it, as they obviously got married in the end...
It's funny how you sometimes associate particular songs with specific phases in your life, and listening to them again even after a long time invokes memories of certain incidences and people, fresh just as if you had experienced or met them yesterday.
posted by N.J.A.P.F. @ 10:09 PM
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