Song Details
- Album Release Date: 2012
- Genre: rock-n-roll
Song Meaning of “Flip, Flop and Fly – Live At The International, Las Vegas/1970” by Jerry Lee Lewis
This song speaks to living a free and wild life, with each verse offering a different perspective of various freedoms and passions. Through powerful storytelling and passionate singing, Jerry Lee Lewis encourages listeners to get out there, embrace the world, and make it to their own personal paradise. The carefree chorus “Flip, Flop and Fly” describes a life free from worry and enjoying the moment with everything it offers.
At the same time, the song speaks to treasuring beauty, nature, and nature’s creatures, to appreciating the blessings of life. This is heard in the stanza, “Angels on my shoulder, I can feel their wings/butterflies a-flutter around this heart of mine/foxes in the meadow, in a wildflower bed/setting me free, flipping and flopping in my head.” The animals and angels symbolize a connection to a higher power, providing freedom to take chances and explore nature.
The song is also an anthem of non-conformity and rebellion. By shirking the traditional, flip, flop and fly is an assertion of independence and an acknowledgment of wild, free spirit and individualism. It is a song about disregarding conventions to draw upon the power of self-expression and the magic of the world around us.