# Songs about planes and flying

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [January 31, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675 "2025-01-31T13:07:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/219 "2025-02-11T13:26:55Z")

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> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#):
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> > [@solost](#):
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> > _Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground_
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> That line was about the breakup of his band _Flying Machine_.

Did not know that, thanks!

I had always heard that, based on these opening lines:

_Just yesterday mornin’, they let me know you were gone_  
_Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you_

…plus the “_Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground_” line, a myth was created that James Taylor was in a long distance relationship with a woman named Suzanne, and was moping around because he missed her. So his friends chipped in to buy her a plane ticket to come see him, and the plane crashed.

I knew _that_ story wasn’t true, but I didn’t know about the band ‘Flying Machine’.

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