Fidelity

Regina Spektor

Shake it up

I never loved nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting my heart truly
I got lost in the sounds

I hear in my mind
All of these voices
I hear in my mind
All of these words
I hear in my mind
All of this music
And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
Well, it breaks my heart

Suppose I never, ever met you
Suppose we never fell in love
Suppose I never, ever let you
Kiss me so sweet and so soft

Suppose I never ever saw you
Suppose you never ever called
Suppose I kept on singing love songs
Just to break my own fall
Just to break my fall
Just to break my fall
Just to break my fall
Break my fall
Break my fall

All my friends say
That of course it's
Gonna get better
Gonna get better
Better, better
Better, better
Better, better, better

I never loved nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting my heart truly
I got lost in the sounds

I hear in my mind
All of these voices
I hear in my mind
All of these words
I hear in my mind
All of this music
And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart

I hear in my mind
All of these voices
I hear in my mind
All of these words
I hear in my mind
All of this music
And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
and it breaks my heart
and it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
Breaks my heart

And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart


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    i agree with you, SecondDegreeFresh, a bit.

    i think she's afraid to fall in love in a person, a man, so she avoids it... and instead she falls in love with music or her music. Then she realizes she's just taken the exact same emotion and just put it toward something else.. and it just "breaks her heart" anyway.

    i also think the whole "bettah, Bettah" thing is cool. I like how she goes from "bettah" to "better" making the word itself, better.

    frumstickon July 27, 2007   Link

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