| The Beatles – Octopus's Garden Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| i'm glad i'm not the only person who thought of that. haha | |
| Radiohead – No Surprises Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| that's exactly what i thought when i first heard this song. i don't know how anyone could think it's about anything else. | |
| Joanna Newsom – Sawdust and Diamonds Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Art_er... i really like your take on it. performing onstage and music definately come to mind when hearing this song. | |
| Regina Spektor – 20 Years of Snow Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| maybe the 20 years of clean is the strict world of classical music that she must have experienced, being a classical pianist. many unorthodox musicians come from strict backgrounds that they eventually broke away from. Emilie Autumn, Joanna Newsom, and Lourds Lane are just a few examples. maybe it's about her escape from the world of recitals and protocol and traditional music. the man in the song is obviously her father, who perhaps isn't comfortable with that atmosphere either. anyway, i think of the strangers looking into one another's eyes as being those who saw her breaking away from the norm, and kind of sharing incredulous looks. thoughts? | |
| Regina Spektor – Summer in the City Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| i think it is from a man's perspective. i think it's about a guy who's lover has moved away from the city, and when it's summer and all the girls with cleavage and short shorts come out, he misses having someone to be with. i don't think he misses her so much as he misses having someone to sleep with. | |
| Regina Spektor – Hotel Song Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| i like everyone's theories, but as for "floaters"... have you ever been kind of spacing out and staring into the distance, when you realise there is some sort of shape floating over the surface of your eye? sometimes it's just a piece of dust, but some of them are blemishes in the film over your eye. in my family, my mom refers to them as "floaters." you can follow them for a while, but eventually, you lose sight of them. sounds like a kind of metaphor if those are the kinds of floaters she means. | |
| Regina Spektor – Field Below Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| i think the song is simply about missing someone or something. the narrator is longing for change. she's stuck in the city where it's cold and dark, but she wants a change of scenery. she wants to hear roosters, and see open fields, but she's stuck in the dark crowded cold of the city. she also wishes she could see someone, but they've moved out of town, and probably out of her life. that's the story i hear. :) | |
| Joanna Newsom – Sawdust and Diamonds Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Does anyone have any comments on the verses, "push me back into a tree bind my buttons with salt fill my long ears with bees praying: please, please, please love, you ought not! no you ought not!"? To me, they seem extremely intimate.. almost abrasively so. Like the narrator is feeling pressured into doing something that she really doesn't want to do. If it were of an intimate nature, that would (to me) explain, "I could not undo that desire/oh, desire..." I, like most of you, haven't closely contemplated what the song might mean, but just by listening to it without any real deep thought suggests a relationship to me, rather than eternity. I would have to say it's one of the more bittersweet songs on the album. It's a sad, waning love. Another verse that especially makes me feel this way is, "darling, we will be fine, but what was yours and mine/appears to be a sandcastle that the gibbering wave takes" Maybe my own waning, bittersweet relationship has influenced me into thinking this way, but that's just what I feel, and what comes to mind for me. I would love to hear any comments you might have, especially if you got the same impression. :) |
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