| Regina Spektor – Après Moi Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Wow, that's a really interesting interpretation Andidawn. I personally don't think that the narrator of this song would weaken in the end, this song sound more like a warning to me. The narrator is warning us that we can't be broken by the influences in our lives. We must think for ourselves and not be manipulated by others. What you said about the "After me comes the flood" and the "Be Afriad ofs..." lines I think is very interesting. I definitely see the protagonist of this song to be a "last point of resistance against some overwhelming force." Maybe the narrator is the only one thinking on his/her own in an entire culture of people being manipulated? Maybe the narrator is feeling the pull themselves, but feels the need to "go on standing?" | |
| Regina Spektor – Hotel Song Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I've always thought along the lines of itsraninheaven's idea, that the song was told from multiple viewpoints. The way I see it, the first half of the song it is the story of a cheating husband told by his young lover, and his wife. The first half of the song (first four verses) are being told by the young lover, who says things like "come into my bed" , "I have dreams of orca whales and owls", "floaters in my eye" and finally "I am a child it's too soon." I think this young woman represents a desperate need to make herself "mature" and an "adult" by engaging in sex and drugs, just find herself "waking up in fear" and having dreams of orca whales and owls, which I think represent childhood. The last verses I think are being sung by the wife, who after snooping around, has found bags of cocaine and tthe girls phone number, and coming to a sad realization she "wades downstairs." One might say since the last verse of the song is very much similar to the verse sung by the young lover earlier, it might be changing again to the young girl, but I think that the lines "You will never be my fool" changing to "You will never be my dear, dear friend," signify a difference in who is saying the lines. The young girl would use the word fool, because that what she was looking for in the relationship, a fool, not a dear dear friend. The wife, however, was looking for a dear friend, a life companion. Both women are disappointed, finding that they can't handle to be each other's fools, nor dear friends. |
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| Regina Spektor – Après Moi Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I have always thought this song was about feeling lost in a world where you really have no choices concerning your actions and your choices are all influenced heavily by your culture and situation. The lines I (are) must go on standing, You can't break that which isn't yours I (are) must go on standing I'm not my own, It's not my choice convey that emotion for me. Just my take on it :) |
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