Paper Planes - M.I.A.
Album: Kala
Genre: Alternative Dance
Released: February, 2008
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Paper Plans is a song that talks about the problems with visas and the perceptions about immigrants. Also, it is a soundtrack for the upcoming movie Pineapple Express which will be premiered on August 6th. The music video was made by Bernard Gourley and released on December through TRL. Paper Planes has many remixes. The album, Kala, has been nominated at 2008 Independent Music Awards as International Album of the Year and MIA got a nomination as International Artist/Group/Duo of the Year. During June, 2008, she announced that the Europe tour was canceled in her website.
I fly like paper, get high like planes
If you catch me at the border I got visas in my name
If you come around here, I make ‘em all day
I get one down in a second if you wait
I fly like paper, get high like planes
If you catch me at the border I got visas in my name
If you come around here, I make ‘em all day
I get one down in a second if you wait
Sometimes I think sitting on trains
Every stop I get to I’m clocking that game
Everyone’s a winner now we’re making that fame
Bonafide hustler making my name
Sometimes I think sitting on trains
Every stop I get to I’m clocking that game
Everyone’s a winner now we’re making that fame
Bonafide hustler making my name
All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)
And (KKKAAAA CHING!)
And take your money
All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)
And (KKKAAAA CHING!)
And take your money
All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)
And (KKKAAAA CHING!)
And take your money
All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)
And (KKKAAAA CHING!)
And take your money
Pirate skulls and bones
Sticks and stones and weed and bombs
Running when we hit ‘em
Lethal poison through their system
Pirate skulls and bones
Sticks and stones and weed and bombs
Running when we hit ‘em
Lethal poison through their system
No one on the corner has swag like us
Hit me on my burner prepaid wireless
We pack and deliver like UPS trucks
Already going hell just pumping that gas
All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)
And (KKKAAAA CHING!)
And take your money
All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)
And (KKKAAAA CHING!)
And take your money
All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)
And (KKKAAAA CHING!)
And take your money
All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)
And (KKKAAAA CHING!)
And take your money
Third world democracy
Yeah, I got more records than the K.G.B.
So, uh, no funny business
Some some some I some I murder
Some I some I let go
Some some some I some I murder
Some I some I let go
All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)
And (KKKAAAA CHING!)
And take your money
All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)
And (KKKAAAA CHING!)
And take your money
All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)
And (KKKAAAA CHING!)
And take your money
All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)
And (KKKAAAA CHING!)
And take your money
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August 28th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
“Paper Plans is a song that talks about the problems with visas and the perceptions about immigrants.”
Wow. Not right at all. Try drug traffiking “If you catch me at the border, I got visas in my name.”
…Among other things that don’t have to do with immigrants lol…
September 8th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Thanks for the lyrics. I thought the song (with the help of the video_ was about being tempted into going into the life of easy money, because you’re sick of struggling, but not actually doing it.
September 14th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
i love this song! it is the best. totally descibes me!!!!ya know. lol
September 27th, 2008 at 11:04 am
OMG THIS IS MY ALL TIME FAVORITE AONG EVER.i have it on my myspace and i play it non stop.
September 29th, 2008 at 12:23 am
I hate this song. At first i liked it but i didn’t know what it said, so i looked up the lyrics and realized it was bad. Why does she repeat everything at least twice? Oh! I remember because she wants you to have it in your head and then go out and do it. I can’t understand why people do this. This song took the blind fold of my eyes. From now on i will check the lyrics of any song before i sing it. People think its just a song and that it is not harmful but try again. Bad things have happend because of songs and their lyrics.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:09 am
LOOK RACHEL FOR ONE THiNG YOU ARE WRONG ABOUT THiS SONG. YOU CAN STiLL SING iT. ALL SHE iS DOiN iS COMPARiNG HER MUSiC TO SELLiNG DRUGS. “SOME i MURDER SOME I LET GO”..SHE’S TALKiNG ABOUT SOME OF HER SONGS SHE GOES HARD ON AND SOME SONGS SHE DOESN’T. “LETHAL POiSON THROUGH THEiR SYSTEM”, THE POiSON iS THE MUSiC AND THEiR SYSTEM IS THE SPEAKERS. HONESTLY, i GET TiRED OF PEOPLE MiSUNDERSTANDiNG SONGS. iF U PAY ATTENTiON MOSTLY ALL SONGS NOW ARE NOTHiNG BUT METAPHORS, SO THiNK ABOUT THAT THE NEXT TiME YOU TRY AND JUDGE ANOTHER SONG AND HAVE THE WRONG iNTERPRETATiON ABOUT iT.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:47 pm
I totally hate rap and that kind of stuff… im a metal head… but this song my gf got me into and it is so f****ng mad….
thanks
October 26th, 2008 at 3:56 am
so, jasmine, what ‘metaphor’ is this?
All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)
And (KKKAAAA CHING!)
And take your money
Sick of motherfuckers saying whatever they want and using ‘oh, it’s a metaphor innit’ as an excuse.
October 30th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
isn’t it more like “Lethal poison FOR their system?” According to the video her lips don’t even match the word THROUGH , so what is it?
October 30th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
and also if you come around HEY i make em all day, not if you come around HERE. and everyone’s a winner NOW were makin our fame, is supposed to be everyone’s a winner, were makin our fame, WHere in hell does anybody here the word NOW in that verse, get the lyrics right.
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:06 am
Actually, this is more about politics than anything else. Don’t forget that the singer is of Tamil origin, and her dad is the founder of a militant organization in Sri Lanka fighting for Tamil independence.
The singer has had visa problems coming here to the U.S. and she’s obviously had to deal with lots of prejudice since she is of Tamil origin. That’s what this song is about, and it’s a play on how people perceive her. I think the song is very interesting lyrics-wise, but otherwise isn’t that great a song.
November 20th, 2008 at 12:46 am
I’m sorry, but this song is just nonsense. I think some one made the catchy beat, and then just started making up dumb shit as they went along. I laugh at the fact that people are trying to make assumptions about these lyrics that do not make a lick of sense. Oh well, thats music nowadays.