M.I.A. - Paper Planes | Kaagmandu TV

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About Singer:

Mathangi Arulpragasam (born 18 July 1975), better known by her stage name M.I.A., is a British recording artist. She is also a songwriter, painter and director. "M.I.A." is a play on her own name and a reference to the acronym of Missing in Action. Her compositions combine elements of alternative, dance, electronic, hip hop, and world music. M.I.A. began her career in 2000 as a visual artist, filmmaker and designer in west London before beginning her recording career in 2002.

About Song:

The track stems slightly from M.I.A.'s family history and from M.I.A.'s own frustration at American government visits to her official website following the release of her debut album Arular in 2005, a refusal to grant her a work visa to record her second album in the US in 2006 despite several previous travels to the country before and after her debut album's release, coupled with her brief presence on the US Homeland Security Risk List in 2006 due to her politically charged lyrics. M.I.A. has openly discussed the origin of the song, saying "I was thinking about living [in Bed-Stuy], waking up every morning – it's such an African neighborhood. I was going to get patties at my local and just thinking that really the worst thing that anyone can say [to someone these days] is some shit like: "What I wanna do is come and get your money." People don’t really feel like immigrants or refugees contribute to culture in any way. That they’re just leeches that suck from whatever. So in the song I say "All I wanna do is [sound of gun shooting and reloading, cash register opening] and take your money." I did it in sound effects. It's up to you how you want to interpret. America is so obsessed with money, I’m sure they’ll get it."

She added that she felt that listeners could interpret the gunshots and cash register ringing in the song's chorus as coming from any gun-toter, telling an interviewer "You can either apply it on a street level and go, oh, you’re talking about somebody robbing you and saying I’m going to take your money. But, really, it could be a much bigger idea: someone's selling you guns and making money. Selling weapons and the companies that manufacture guns – that's probably the biggest moneymaker in the world."

Lyrics:

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 clicking my gun

Everyone's a winner 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

And

And take your money

All I wanna do is

And

And take your money

All I wanna do is

And

And take your money

All I wanna do is

And

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 to hell, just pumping that gas

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 to hell, just pumping that gas

All I wanna do is

And

And take your money

All I wanna do is

And

And take your money

All I wanna do is

And

And take your money

All I wanna do is

And

And take your money

M.I.A.

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

And

And take your money

All I wanna do is

And

And take your money

All I wanna do is

And

And take your money

All I wanna do is

And

And take your money