Ohmigosh, I have a JC post IN FULL! What are the odds?

This lyric came up"

> Look out the left", the captain said,
> "The lights down there that's where we'll land."
> I saw a falling
> star   burn    up
> above the Las Vegas
> sands.
> It wasn't the one that you gave to me... etc



Lama wrote: 

> I never "got" that she saw a falling star <from the air>.  I can imagine> that the 
>air above the desert, like the air .........


Now MG:

For a long time, I always view that line as semi-literal and took "falling star" to 
mean a once famous persona and "Las Vegas Sands" to mean quite literally the Sands 
Resort in LV.

Thus, "I saw a falling star burn up above the LV Sands" hit my head as "above" being 
the marguee where the headliners are the lead neon names and then there's smaller and 
smaller print until you see: "And playing in our Taylor's Ham Lounge: Tony Orlando and 
Dawn."

Then again, this is the gal who thought that Brooks Robinson and Frank Robinson of MLB 
fame were twin brothers.........

MG

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