| Regina Spektor – Dulce et Decorum est Pro Patria Mori Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| that is the best poem ever. please read it, you will love it. but i've never heard of this song.... where i can i hear it? | |
| Regina Spektor – Buildings Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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i think it's just small talk. i don't think either one of them knows where to start a conversation about her alcoholism, so they make idle comments about buildings, and he goes to work and she scrubs the toilet and they ask and they beg and nothing changes. i bet the song ends, they go to bed, wake up the next day and do it all over again. like time, they're just sifting through themselves. over and over. this is an incredible song though. my heart breaks everytime i hear regina singing that "she begs for time". |
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| Regina Spektor – Baobabs Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| there's a whole other side to this song too.... all of that little prince stuff (brilliant book!) in the context of a relationship between two people. she has changed, been tamed, given up her thorns. now what? she feels defenceless. her walls are down and she is at the mercy of this other person, this great love, and i think the person she has become for this relationship is threatening to take over the real 'her', split her in two. and without her thorns, the world is scary, the city is terrifying, and the whole thing is threatening to overwhelm her and make her (and the children she wants to have) into something she doesn't want to be. | |
| Ani DiFranco – Wish I May Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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this is the song i listen to when it feels like all is lost. to all intents and puroses, this song should push most people over the edge. there's nothing kind or uplifting about it. but i think there is something to be said for hearing your dispair and hopelessness described so beautifully. it always seems to remind me that its natural to feel like that sometimes. just enjoy it for a few days and ride it out. and i don't think you can beat a lyric as perfect as this: it takes a stiff upper lip just to hold up my face i've got to suck it up and savour the taste of my own behavior |
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| Ani DiFranco – Out of Habit Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| this song profoundly changed my life. i was listening to it on a bus one day on my way to college and realized i was living "out of habit". it was a pretty pivotal moment for me. i think its a great argument against complacency, and when she says fuck this time and place, she's giving a big fuck you to this entire life and city of complacency she's found herself in, and acknowledging her role in it too. and this is the best use of the C-word i have ever heard. | |
| Ani DiFranco – You Had Time Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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this is perfect ani-in-love, and it's just so tragic that as good as it all sounds, life sometimes gets in the way of love, no matter how beautiful. and every time i hear this song, i long for the day that you'll say, "it's really good to see you." you'll say, "i missed you horribly." you'll say, "let me carry that, "give that to me." and you will take the heavy stuff and you will drive the car...... its just such a great image. |
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| Regina Spektor – Samson Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| i don't think their love was tragic in any way. it feels like samson walks in one night and asks her to cut his hair. he's tired of the power and responsibility that comes with his herculean strength, and just wants to live out his days simply, safe in the arms of the woman he loves. and how could delilah say no to the man she loves? but once he loses his gift, her name is smeared about. when she says "the history books forgot about us and the bible didn't mention us", i think she means that they didn't mention what really happened - that it was simple and beautiful and natural. she may have been blamed for it, but it was a blame she was willing to shoulder, her "SWEETEST downfall". | |
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