| Regina Spektor – Time Is All Around Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| My favorite part of the song is when she sings "Leaves become most beautiful..." right after she goes through that dramatic "I don't want to" stanza. It's heaven! I heard the string accompaniment of it and it was even more beautiful! As a classical musician, the classical genre's influence over Regina is REALLY apparent in this song (although it's apparent in most of her other songs). My favorite line though, is when she talks about stepping on a non-existent cat. That's how people in love are, at first. They're so scared they'll mess up and when it goes like "of course you changed, you changed..." is really dramatic. Everyone can relate to the whole song though. Tired of being in love? Listen to Time is all Around. | |
| Regina Spektor – Hotel Song Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I don't think it's about a prostitute like everyone says. I think her character represents a wealthy woman who just likes to have fun. The story is, in my opinion, she cons a man into having a one-night stand with her, having a blast of a night. Her world in the hotel room is represented as one of naivety but when she wakes up, she realizes that the man she was supposed to just have fun with, is the man she's in love with and refuses to be friends with him due to her feelings. My opinion about her giving money to the porter is a metaphoric way of expressing how she's transparently in love and yet she's trying to buy her way out of the situation. I also think she describes herself in the stanza where she goes like "Who's the girl wearing my dress; I figured out her number; it's on a paper napkin; but I don't know her address." I think it means she's describing her existence, as equivocal as a phone number. It's easy to dial it to look for the person, but hard to find out their real identity. That's my two cents | |
| Regina Spektor – Baby Jesus Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| For those who heard the actual song you know it's not angry and a very fun way of being derisive. I don't think she's actually poking fun out of Christianity in particular,but I'm sure she used Baby jesus to make an example out of it. I think this whole song is to poke fun out of extremists and how seriously some people just take religion. | |
| Regina Spektor – Chemo Limo Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"I had a dream Crispy crispy Benjamin Franklin came over Baby-sat all four of my kids" If assuming this song is indeed about a cancer patient with children, then this stanza can represent how she fears her children's admittance to foster homes as being wards of the court. "Then in my dream I told the doctor off He said if you don't want to do it then you don't have to do it He said the truth is You'll be okay, anyway" Here's her decision to refuse chemotherapy, which might have been her key to survival. "Then in my dream Crispy crispy Benjamin Franklin and the doctor Went and had a talk with my boss" This refers to her boss being aware of financial and medical situation. From now on Benjamin Franklin will be the government/money. "Something about insurance policies They kept the door closed at all times I couldnt hear or see." Everyone knows how ambiguous insurance policies are. And here she addresses it. Doors closed and etc represent the unpredictable future for cancer patients, their families, and household. "No thank you no thank you no thank you no thank you I don't have to pay for this shit I can afford chemo like I can afford a limo and on any given day I'd rather ride a limousine No thank you no thank you no thank you no thank you I ain't about to to die like this I can afford chemo like I can afford a limo And besides this shit is making me tired it's making me tired it's making me tired You know I plan to retire some day, And I'm gonna go out in style go out in style This shit it's making me tired it's making me tired it's making me tired I'm-a gonna go out in style go out in style" These two stanzas give light to how much of an oxymoron taking chemotherapy is for cancer patients. Although it prolongs their longevity, Regina singss about how it only prolongs the depression and the rather ominous death. I'm not really sure what the next few stanzas mean. The limo could've replaced chemo in terms that for everyone's sake she decides to undergo chemotherapy although her reluctance is later shown. |
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| Regina Spektor – Loveology Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I don't think this song is random at all. I believe her first stanzas depict a blissfully ignorant first date, with ephemeral happiness and serendipitous love stories. Then it transitions into a more serious atmosphere, such as the classroom, which relationships soon turn into and they begin to learn of all these complicated matters in love and life | |
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