| Regina Spektor – The Call Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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When I listen to this song I tear up. I think of soldiers going off to war, and the families letting them go. The narrator in the song is optimistic, you'll come back, don't worry, no need to say goodbye. When they call you back, you'll come home. But when I hear it, I feel like the soldier is being sent to his death, and that's why this hope is so sad. I haven't watched the movie, but I know there must be some pretty epic battles in it, which is another reason why I see this. Now that I've read the lyrics and what other people have thought, I don't think my interpretation is correct, but it is still true to me, and the song still breaks my heart in the same way. I don't however feel that this is an authentic Regina song, it sounds like some computers had a little fun with it and took her rawness out. |
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| Regina Spektor – Just Like the Movies Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"It's just like the movies, i eat from the trees" May be a biblical reference, perhaps of how women are depicted as man's downfall, as was said before. Or it could be talking about how simple things are in the movies: she's a dreamer, she doesn't go out and hunt or make food, she picks apples from the trees. She takes what is given to her, and all she can do is pray that more is given, because she doesn't believe that she herself can provide or create anything good enough. She waits for him, she takes what love is given to her. If i do not open the curtains then i cannot see All the people run by...(x4) She's letting the world pass her by, she knows she can join the world whenever she wants to, just by opening the curtains, but she doesn't want to. My heart eats beats... My heart eats love... Love is her staple, once again she's eating a product of the earth and not something she had to go kill or prepare herself. Also beats are red and juicy like hearts, as some one else mentioned. Regina was clever with this, the way she sings it, I couldn't even tell it said eats beats, I thought it was my heart it beats. Or it could even be that her heart only lives by each aching heart beat and each vial of love. You are mistaken cause i do not bite this is where the biblical reference comes in again, he's left her and she wonders why, it's not like she's a thorn in his side, is it? Perhaps he's running away because he heard that women are the downfall of men and he can't get too close or stay with her too long, else he'll regret it. But he is mistaken. Over the williamsburg bridge on a bike Sure he's mistaken. But he left, so what's it matter? She only took what was given to her, she loses what's taken from her, probably without much of a fight, she's rather passive. And if he loves me then why does he leave...(x2) (Key part of song) She's thinking to herself, arguing with herself, the passive part of her is telling her to do nothing and just continue waiting; he loves her he'll be back. But something in her is beginning to boil. ‘But if he loves me then why does he leave?’ Why am I just sitting here picking apples from trees with my curtains closed? My heart eats beats... My heart eats love... She gives into the passive voice, repeating the verse that keeps her stable in her state of mind, the verse that represents her stationary waiting, her excuse to live heart beat by heart beat, just eating the love that is given to her. That's her purpose, ‘get back into the system, this is all you are, a heart factory.’ Don't say goodbye like you're burying him Cause the world is round and he might return... (x2) The passive voice continues to soothe her and convince her to stay in this idol state of mind. ‘He might have left you but it's not like he's dead, the world is round and small and maybe you'll see him again, many loves are like that, they get back together and stay that way. So stay here and wait. You'll be alright.’ But if he loves me then why does he leave...(x2) She’s growing frustrated again, she's been waiting for too long. Either he never came back or he keeps coming back and keeps leaving for long amounts of time, it's almost too much for her heart factory to bear...nothing is being given to her. She's hungry, she's starving. |
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| Motion City Soundtrack – Capital H Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I love how so many of their songs are about addictions, and that all of their songs are addicting themselves! I'm addicted to Motion City Soundtrack, no doubt about it, it's my high. | |
| Motion City Soundtrack – Attractive Today Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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yep I'd say drinking is a big part in a lot of their songs as well as anti depressents, also the 'breaking point' is a common theme, which is why I love them, because I'm at the breaking point all the time. Their songs are sarcastic, witty, painfuly honest, and upbeat. They're anthems for my every day life, and when I'm feeling like I'm going to crash, or I have, I can just break out into song and start rocking out, and I know I'm not alone, that's why I love MCS. They make me happy. I listen to this song just about every morning, something is always screwy, whether its relationships, grades, or my hair, and this just makes me smile. I always say or mouth 'I like you' when that comes on, it just makes everything seem so much better. |
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| Eisley – Telescope Eyes Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Many of the the things I've thought have been said, telescope eyes as either being glasses or criticism, metal teeth as either being braces or nasty words and monsterlike qualities (on humans), love unrequited due to social structures and the like. But I haven't seen much of is this stanza, which is my favorite. (And I think 'you freak' was necessary and strong) go cry, go run away let your short legs carry you away with your big dress and your dirty hair your pen's waiting for you just get far, far away from me i don't want your disease I don't feel like this is the singer/song writer talking, I feel like she's trying to go into the skin of the people that made her misserable when she was young. I feel like she, being a singer/song writer, probobly eased her missery by writing (as I do, the pen is a perfect tool) and whenever they acted this way to her she would write. So they told her to run away as worthless as she was, a freak misfit too poor to buy fitting clothes or be clean, and go write about it in her little journal. She's looking back at the monsters they were and looking at her oldself as the monster they thought she was. Mathew can be a few things, another boy with the same problem and..I can go on for a while, but most of the things I would have said have been said. I fell in love with this song when I heard the original version, I felt that it was more honest and hit closer to home for me. Every one interprets it differently regardless of the artist's original intentions. I saw it this was because I used to be teased when I was little. I don't care if it's the 'right' version, that's not what's important in art, how it effects individuals is important, and it really cought me emotionaly. |
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