- Lovers Spit – Broken Social Scene I’m a big airport crier. Sobbing, sniffling, wailing. After hospitals and graveyards, I bet airports have the highest per square inch count of tears. I love those sorrowful sobby tear wet kisses at departure gates. Hence this song.
- Caring is Creepy – The Shins
I only ever listen to a snippit of this one. It’s a good slow – mo walk away and wipe your eyes song. Oo, and a good one to glare at couples who can’t POSSIBLY be sadder than you to. - Changes Are No Good – The Stills
This one is pretty self-explanatory. If you want to leave.. you shouldn’t be listening to this play list. - The Police and The Private – Metric
That brief moment where you’re contemplating rushing back through security and having that 360 degree kiss where the credits come up. In happier movies. - In the Waiting Line – Zero 7
I just realised that in all my leaving/travelling/airport fantasies, everything moves in slow motion and I’ve got great long hair that bounces when I walk. Well. Hand over your passport and boarding card and smile sadly to this one. Cry in the jetway. - Leavin’ On a Jet Plane – Mos Def
Come now. Can you really fault me? At least this is an amazing hip-hop version. Of course, more suitable when you’re leaving Brooklyn over Vienna or Washington, but cuts the sadness all the same. - Passport Radio – Broken Social Scene
Without a word of a lie, I listen to this when I find my seat, and the world, my heartslows down. Everyone moves in time to the soft horn. Watch the stewardess do the seat belt speech to this. It’s never been more beautiful. Oh.. but listen too… fix your mask first, don’t help anyone else. - Emergency Exit –Beck
This is a super turbulence and dodge the drink cart song. Watch out, you’ll be tapping your neighbour’s seat in front of you. - Straighten Up and Fly Right – Natalie Cole
Right. So the song is ACTUALLY about a monkey and a buzzard. But in the musical version of my life we dance down the aisles and sashay out of luggage compartments in red pillbox hats holding silver tea pots. Straighten up Captain. - So I’ll Sit Here Waiting – The Like
Because that’s what you basically do for 2-17 hours in the air. Sit, and wait to land. And in the meantime, drink what you can and sleep when you can’t drink. Right. - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road – Lucinda Williams
We are talking about airplanes.. but you have to get home from the airport. This is one of my all time favourite travel songs. Bryan and I listened to it on the way to Rajasthan a million times, given that we could never REALLY figure out how to switch the tape sides once the car had turned on and off.
**Disclaimer - I pretend my life is a slightly romantic, deeper meaning, Palme D'Or winning event, complete with gritty yellow slides and many departure gates. If this does not work for you, this playlist may not either.
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