| Regina Spektor – Flyin Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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I've come back to this song so many times and I think I finally understand the meaning. Flyin out MY window -- her own sexual pleasure, in this case masturbation Flyin out HIS window -- rape "Flyin ever since" means that she can never return back to the innocence of her owning her own sexuality, it will forever belong to her abuser and anyone else that comes after him. Damn. |
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| Matt Costa – Sunshine Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I've always thought this song was about the life cycle of a flower (with a deeper meaning about love). It gets nutrients and grows from the sun, but can also be hurt by the sun. The flower won't be there forever but it's nice to enjoy while it exists. And one day the sun might just be the thing that kills it. "even though your skies are blue You're drying up my bed" The sun creates a beautiful day but dries up the literal flower bed at the same time. "Someday you will get the best of me Oh someday probably when I'm old and grey" As a flower grows it needs the sun, but eventually the blooming season will be over and the flower will have to die. Just as the beginning of a relationship is beautiful but that part will eventually fade. I think the tone of the song being extremely happy while the lyrics are extremely sad pairs with the idea of mortality and how anything that's beautiful will also one day have to die, whether it's a flower or love. |
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| Regina Spektor – Music Box Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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To me this song is about getting lost in your imagination. The music box is the box that society forces us to be in and the structured "norm" we have to abide by in order to be accepted. All the speaker wants to do is escape that norm and be able to indulge in what she imagines to be a better life outside of the box. "I close my eyes and think that I have found me But then I feel mortality surround me" When her eyes are closed (sleeping?) she is free to dream and be herself, but she can never truly escape real life because she'll wake up. The confines of her body will always come back to interrupt her even if she feels more real while she's dreaming. The part about doing the dishes is again about indulging in your imagination in the midst of the daily routine. But of course "mortality surrounds her" once again when she inevitably starts to get sick from drinking the dish water. Even when she has a moment to let her mind wander her body will always be there to jolt her back into reality. |
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| Regina Spektor – Flyin Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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One interpretation of this song is a young girl who daydreams far too much, and is sexually abused by her teacher. Now instead of choosing to "fly out of her window," he "SENDS her flying out of his window," which may represent her mind forcing her to mentally go to another place during sexual abuse. She then lives the rest of her life with a completely different mindset, the abuse distorting her view of sexuality, and now she overdoes it (prostitution? sex addiction?) because of the trauma. However I think there are other possible interpretations, such as "flyin' out of my window" referring to masturbation. The teacher "sent me flyin' out of HIS window," representing her having to succumb to his pleasures instead of her own. He was "not caught once... not caught twice," which means this happened numerous times without anybody knowing about it. As it continued it sort of rendered her numb. She spends the rest of her life outside of his window, and can never come back again because the abuse can never be undone and she's now living in a different state because of it. Another extension of that could be that a young girl trying to understand her body stumbles upon masturbation/orgasm, and uses it to pass the time. She "saw the earth and the sky" during orgasm and felt like she was in another world. She gets bored in school, and being young and not knowing what she's doing, masturbates during class. Her teacher catches her doing this and then molests her. When she doesn't want to have sex he literally throws her out the window, killing her. She's been "flyin ever since... flyin' in the sky," as a spirit/ghost, experiencing the pleasure of being unburdened by her body or shame in being caught doing something that makes her feel good. ... or maybe a combination of all of these! |
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| Regina Spektor – Aching to Pupate Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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This song seems to be about a naive and rambunctious young girl with dreams of being valued and acknowledged by the world. She's maybe in her late teens/early 20s and has big city dreams and the energy to go with it, however her problem is that a lack of life experience has left her to see the world with rose-colored glasses. Her wanting to sell butterflies because "There's a shortage in the city" is her wanting to offer something natural and beautiful to people, and she thinks that the void in the market for butterflies means that nobody has thought to sell them before. What she hasn't thought about is the fact that nobody may want to buy them in the first place. Instead, people want materialistic "bags and shoes... books and gold," and aren't willing to stop to appreciate something as simple and natural as a butterfly. The "aching to pupate" is her truly wanting to transform into an adult, but is burdened by the fact that she isn't as old or as experienced as others who manage to actually make something of themselves in the city. The use of the word "pupate" is of course a play on words, as the song is about butterflies. On another level, she represents the innocence of being untainted by the idea that money and material goods are the most important things in life. She thinks just being her own natural self is all she needs, but is in for a rude awakening, as the world favors unnatural and materialistic beauty rather than natural beauty. |
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| Regina Spektor – Daniel Cowman Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I'd like to start off by saying I think the setting of this song takes place some time around the early 1900s. Heroin addiction was on the rise, prisoners took baths instead of showers, and hanging was still a proper way to execute someone. "On the day that Daniel Cowman stopped existing The world should have ended right then and there At precisely four-fifteen when he stopped existing The world should have ended How could it go on? How could it go on? How could it go on?" This part is Daniel Cowman speaking in 3rd person, after dying, as some sort of empty spirit looking down on the world without being a part of it any longer. He is new to the afterlife and is confused about how to separate his dead body from his living soul. How could he be simultaneously alive and dead at the same time? After he begins to come to terms with this issue (the repetition of "I don't exist,") and he realizes he has complete freedom as a disembodied spirit (rather than his past life as a human prisoner), he doesn't want to misuse this new freedom and "go do whatever I please," because that's what got him into trouble in the first place as a human. The courtroom verse is a secondary narrator quite literally telling what happened when Daniel was sentenced. "And he remembered Heroin Boy walking through the door..." Heroin Boy is another death row prisoner whom Daniel got to know from being in jail together. The key here is the word "remembered" which clues to the bathtub scene being a flashback Daniel has while in the courtoom. "And he remembered heroin boy walking in through the door Bouncing off the walls and the floor Taking off his belt taking off his pants Filling up the bathtub Getting ready to go in for a swim. Singing I don't exist..." Heroin boy is the one initially playfully singing "I don't exist" as he gets ready for the bath. He is both dead and alive in that moment, as he has been sentenced to execution and his time on earth has essentially ended already. At the time of the courtroom scene, Heroin Boy has already been executed and when Daniel is sentenced to the same fate, this is the first person that pops into his head because it's the only reference he has in how to behave in this situation. "And you start remembering and remembering..." This is Daniel's life flashing before his eyes. A mish-mash of memories all coming to him at once, his conversation with Heroin Boy, two women at a bar, someone having a party next door, etc. Daniel's worry for Heroin Boy to drown in the bathtub is because he's a heroin addict, and a hot bath is known to dehydrate your body when drugs like that are in your system. This may have been a common correlation during that time period, as people were not educated on the effects of heroin and how the body processes it, likely leading to a number of bathtub-related deaths. Heroin Boy gives him a bit of snarky advice about how "A man destined to hang can never drown" and this is the key line that ties the entire story together. In the beginning Daniel Cowman's soul was worried about abusing his new privilege of freedom. He's realizing that now that he is no longer bound to a body, and can't die, he is completely free and should embrace it by "taking a bath" e.g., doing whatever he wants and truly being at peace with his liberation. Heroin boy felt that he was immune to death by drowning, since he was already told the way in which he was going to die. This is of course not true, as he could have still died in the bathtub, but his sentencing had rendered him completely fearless. From the point of his sentencing, Heroin Boy sees himself as invincible since his destiny has already been decided for him. To sum it up, Daniel's spirit is coming to terms with what it means to be invincible, and is recalling the last moments of his time on earth (via a secondary narrator) to remember a lesson a friend once taught him about reaching and embracing a truly liberated state of being. |
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| Phantom Planet – 1st Things 1st Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think when he says "I'm holding you by the hand More like the nape of your neck" It seems like he wants to be equal with this girl but feels he needs to repremand her and be a babysitter for her since he can't trust her to be faithful on her own. |
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| Phantom Planet – All Over Again Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song is soo energetic. I love it. | |
| Phantom Planet – Badd Business Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This seems to be talking about someone who gets famous or rich or something and then forgets "the little people" and where they started out in life. They get a big head about it and think they're better than everyone else. | |
| Phantom Planet – Big Brat Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The first line is supposed to be "It was August 4th"... | |
| Phantom Planet – By The Bed Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| When you look at it from the standpoint of him being cheated on, it does make sense. He still wants her and wants to work it out, but she feels she's to weak to make things like they used to be. | |
| Phantom Planet – In Our Darkest Hour Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think its about a problem you have and how it can grow into something so big when it started out so small (as a cigarette). "It began with a spark Then a flame Grew into a fire The spread out again" After a while your problem becomes so big that you can't control it. Then it takes over your life and you feel you can't recover from it. |
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| Phantom Planet – Is This Really Happening To Me? Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Yeah every time I watch Drive Me Crazy and hear that song I can't help but smile. | |
| Phantom Planet – One Ray Of Sunlight Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song is definitely meant to give hope for the future that everything's gonna turn out ok. I love it! Its so sweet. | |
| Phantom Planet – Recently Distressed Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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You know I never realized it was like answering an advice column. I mean I knew it was a letter or something, but that kinda makes sense now. It seems like he's trying to answer someone's problem but at the same time saying he has to deal with his own problems, so there's no use in asking him. |
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| Phantom Planet – The Galleria Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Love this song! Its almost an anthem in learning to say goodbye to your youth. | |
| Phantom Planet – Wishing Well Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"the dust and sand is what they sell" could also be referring to the fact that Vegas is in the desert. I'm pretty positive its about Vegas because I remember seeing an interview they did or something mentioning Vegas and how they don't like it...? I dunno. It makes sense though. |
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| Regina Spektor – Edit Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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nobodysnightingale I know what you mean by Batman. The piano chords are pretty similar to the Batman Theme haha. To me the "edit edit edit" chorus part sounds like its supposed to be a record skipping. Not sure what exactly that would have to do with writing though. |
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