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Interek Posted 22 years ago
Vocabulary

"On a plain"

There is a song of Nirvana called "On a plain". The refrain goes like this:

I'm on a plain
I can't complain
I'm on a plain

What is the expression "I am on a plain" used for? What does it mean in this case?


Thanks for answers.
  

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I don't know the song-- I don't even know the group; but could they be singing 'I'm on a plane '?

  • I don't know the song-- I don't even know the group; but could they be singing 'I'm on a plane '?
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I don't know the song-- I don't even know the group; but could they be singing 'I'm on a plane'?
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Thanks for answering. No, they sing "plain"; I put into here a copy of the entire text of the song. Hopefully this will make easier to understand the context the expression was used in:


ON A PLAIN
I'll start this off without any words
I got so high that i scratched 'till i bled

I love myself, better than you
You know it's wrong, so what should i do?
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Hello Interek

It presumably means the geographical feature, i.e. in this context,
a flat slightly dull landscape (in a metaphorical sense).

As intriguing, but less explicable, is the phrase 'neutered and spayed'.

MrP




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Thanks for going to the trouble of posting the whole song, Interek. The logic of lyrics is not my forte, but knowing the relative combined illiteracy of songwriters and lyric transcribers, I would still warrant that it is 'I'm on a plane', meaning 'I'm on an even keel', 'I'm at a smooth, level emotional period, where I am satisfied with myself'. I can think of no rationale, either in or out of c
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Given "I got so high that i scratched 'till i bled," (2nd line) I would say one possibility for "I'm on a plain" is "I'm holding steady and smooth on my heroin/coke buzz for the day and I'm not coming down for a good long while yet."

Various recriminations and self-critical thoughts are possible: "I love myself, better than you" -- I realize it was greedy and self-indulgent of me jus
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Like the man says,

'It is now time to make it unclear
To write down lines that don't make a sense'
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Paul Simon wrote an easier one a generation earlier:

I knew a man, his brain was so small,
He couldn't think of nothing at all.
He's not the same as you and me.
He doesn't dig poetry.
He's so unhip that
When you say Dylan,
he thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas,
Whoever he was.
The man ain't got no culture,
But it's alright, ma,
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I think that there is no explanation to nirvana
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I love nirvana. None their lyrics ever make sense. Fugetaboutit.
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