A question for AFI fans - Paper Airplanes (Makeshift Wings) and 9/11?

Question

I read an answer to another question where someone suggest this as a song about 9/11 and it really made me think - it totally does fit. Anyone else have some insight?

Raise high monolithic statues so fragile as they fall
I am ever enthralled
Gaze, lie and smirk in time, your arrogance will suit you well
'Til fashion is dispelled

As waves of plastic fame go out of fashion
You're going out, going out forever unknown
These waves of plastic fame go out of fashion
(These waves of plastic fame are drying up and I smile)
You're going out, going out forever unknown
(Because you're dying to become forever unknown, unkown)

From above a rain of ashes descends
Anathema I will remain, forever will remain
From below, in my seclusion
Look up to the sky to see paper wings and watch them burn

Without habitation, you'll never find a soul inside
No life, but nothing's died
No lights, but quite the show (Just as long as no one ever knows
All motion is pantomime)

As waves of plastic fame go out of fashion
You're going out, going out forever unknown
These waves of plastic fame go out of fashion

(These waves of plastic fame are drying up and I smile)
You're going out, going out forever unknown
(Because you're dying to become forever unknown, unkown)

From above a rain of ashes descends
Anathema I will remain, forever will remain
From below, in my seclusion
Look up to the sky to see paper wings and watch them burn

Dancing in the rain of descending ash
Dancing on your grave, I'll see you all falling
Dancing in the rain of descending ash
Dancing in your dust, I'll see you all falling
I'd stop it, had you a heart
I'd stop it, had you a heart

From above a rain of ashes descends
Anathema I will remain, forever will remain
From below, in my seclusion
Look up to the sky to see paper wings and watch them burn

Answer 1

i used to think it was about 9/11,
but ever since i realized that the lyrics are "plastic fame" not "plastic frame" (which i used to think they were for some reason) it changed my whole interpretation of the song.
Now i believe the song is actually about short-lived (fake)fame, and how you shouldn't get caught up in it, cuz it'll do nothing but hurt you. (i think this theory fits a bit better than the 9/11 theory)

Davey purposely makes his lyrics vague (and never tells their true meaning) because he wants you to interpret them in your own way =]

Answer 2

It does seem really interesting, and it also sounds a bit about 9/11.
And ann, it's from Sing the Sorrow.

Answer 3

i have no idea
what album is it from?