if love was a plane...

NOTE: This post may be a little serious in nature.

Has anybody heard the song "If Love Was a Plane" by Brad Paisley? (If you're on my page, it's playing right now.) It's one of my new favorites, and if you listen carefully (for those of you who hate country, you may be better off just reading the lyrics) it's pretty much a statement about the way love works. There's this incredible optimism of beating the odds in the beginning, and somewhere along the way, people tend to lose the optimism and fall out of love. IMO, people don't take commitment with enough seriousness...

Ry, I'm glad we got on the plane.

If Love Was a Plane

She’s 98 pounds workin down at the Dairy Queen,
With an Ogilvie home perm and braces.
And he’s long haired, no job and just 19.
They’ve got a baby on the way;
They’re off to the races...

...in love; look at 'em go.
Now what in the world could go wrong?
Don’t tell them the odds,
It's best they don’t know.
If love was a plane, nobody’d get on.

At The Ivy at lunchtime in Beverly Hills,
The paparazzi are gathered outside.
'Cause an actor and an actress are havin' lunch,
And according to Extra and Entertainment Tonight...

...they’re in love, look at em go.
Now what in the world could go wrong?
Don’t tell them the odds,
It's best they don’t know.
If love was a plane, nobody’d get on.

Imagine now the pilot's voice on the intercom
Right before we leave the ground,
Saying, "Folks thanks for flying with us,
But theres a six in ten chance we’re goin down."

But that’s the strangest thing about this emotion;
Even knowing our chances are small,
We line up at the gate with our tickets,
Thinking somehow were different

I mean, after all,
We're in love, look at us go.
Now what in the world could go wrong?
To hell with the odds; we'd rather not know.
If love was a plane, nobody'd get on.


Just a sidenote now. I googled the lyrics to the song, and each place I looked had the perm spelled "Oval-V". Seriously? Has no one heard of an Ogilvie home perm? I must be a hick from Montana.