Aeroplanes

## **Aeroplanes***The Loveliest Time*

**Aeroplanes** is the fourth track on Carly Rae Jepsen's sixth studio album The Loveliest Time (2023). It was released on July 28th 2023, through 604, School Boy, and Interscope Records.

## **Lyrics**

**Verse 1**

Dream slow

I want you to be the one for me, you know

And when the light inside your eyes begins to glow

I won’t hold you back from anything you want, babe

I want you to be the one

Speak nice

I had a funeral for us and for my life

If I could be the way you wanted me tonight

Then I won't hold you back from anything

I want to give you everything you wanted, babe

**Chorus**

I can see diamonds in the rough

I would fly aeroplanes, an ocean for your touch

Didn't you ever dream of us?

One look in your eyes and it's not me

I can see diamonds in the rough

I would fly aeroplanes, an ocean for your touch

Didn't you ever dream of us?

One look in your eyes and it's not me

**Verse 2**

We go colder, the nights for feeling

The fantasy of the way it could have been, so

I want you to look inside my head

And now see me with a candle at your table

Real peaceful, too quiet to need anything

I want to give you everything you wanted, babe

**Chorus**

I can see diamonds in the rough

I would fly aeroplanes, an ocean for your touch

Didn't you ever dream of us?

One look in your eyes and it's not me

I can see diamonds in the rough

I would fly aeroplanes, an ocean for your touch

Didn't you ever dream of us?

One look in your eyes and it's not me

**Outro**

We're gonna have to make time

We're gonna have to build each other's lives

We're only Earth Angels

And everyday I want you

We're gonna have to make time

We're gonna have to build each other's lives

We're only Earth Angels

And everyday I want you

We're gonna have to make time

We're gonna have to build each other's lives

We're only Earth Angels

And everyday I want you

We're gonna have to make time

We're gonna have to build each other's lives

We're only Earth Angels

And everyday I want you

We're gonna have to make time

We're gonna have to build each other's lives

We're only Earth Angels

And everyday I want you

## **Song credits**

#### **Writing and production**

* **Written by:** Carly Rae Jepsen • Patrik Berger
* **Produced by:** Patrik Berger

#### **Instrumentation**

* **Drums:** Cristoffer Cantillo
* **Keyboards:** Jesper Nordenström • Patrik Berger

#### **Technical credits**

* **Engineering:** Michelle Amkoff • Patrik Berger
* **Mastering:** Ruairi O'Flaherty
* **Mixing:** Anthony Dolhai
* **Mix engineering:** Nacho Sotelo

## **Background**

Aeroplanes is a song from Jepsen's sixth studio album The Loveliest Time. The song's title was first revealed alongside the announcement of the album's track listing on July 18th 2023. The song's title refers to travelling a "rather desperate distance" for a "disappointing answer."

## **Writing and development**

Aeroplanes was a song written by Jepsen with Patrik Berger sometime between 2020 and 2022 during the initial development of The Loneliest Time. In 2023, the song was reworked for its inclusion on The Loveliest Time. On the track, Jepsen stated, "It's supposed to make your brain hurt until those changes become familiar and then all of a sudden it couldn’t be any other way."

The song initially began as a "totally different thing" according to Berger, initially as a vague lyric idea and "somewhat disjointed" melody. He played the original idea to Carly, who "really liked it," and began to write lyrics and develop the melody. Berger stated, "She’s very skilled with connecting the dots like that."

Aeroplanes was written about unrequited love. Revisiting the song year later, when making The Loveliest Time, Carly was given a new perspective, stating, "It was really quite satisfying for me to come back and sing this song in a healthier place (...) I was like, I could just be a quiet, needless person in the background so that you could want me. I was in a place where I was ready to mould myself. I’m not there now and it’s like, thank god."

## **References**

1. ↑ @carlyraejepsen "...Crossword puzzle that is. Here are some cutie clues to get you guessing our track list." July 18th 2023 - via Twitter
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Long, Jen "Carly Rae Jepsen on the other side" July 24th 2023