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| Regina Spektor – Hero Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I bought Begin to Hope on iTunes and didn't get any of the bonus tracks...how many were there? |
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| Damien Rice – 9 Crimes Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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i'm sorry if someone's already said this before, because i don't have the time to read all of the comments, but maybe the gun could be his heart? he gave his heart away to another person but his heart is like a loaded gun since by cheating his love is hurting everybody. and maybe....maybe possibly by shoot it he means the person he's with isn't creating painful, passionate feelings in him anymore, or shooting the gun, and how is he supposed to hold the guilt that causes/their failing love/his heart within him. |
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| Povi – Dragonflies Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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found this through random lyric.......i like the lyrics. :D
think the subject matter is kind of obvious |
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| Regina Spektor – Time Is All Around Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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she knows what it's like to be stepped on and left behind, and she's lonely, so she conjures up a cat to keep her company. she has empathy toward the cat and tries not to step on it as others had to her.
i'm thinking leaves are a metaphor for people?
time is all around, making us older, until we die.
i really hope i will get more beautiful with age, like the leaves.
(i don't mean by appearance.) |
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| AFI – Synesthesia Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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i have synesthesia & i still don't get how this song relates to it...although nervosa may have a point |
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| Regina Spektor – Ghost of Corporate Future Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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cleverlines, i saw her in atlanta and she did the same exact thing!!!!! she was like "well i fucked that up!" she sounds SO CUTE whenever she says fuck, she says it like a six year old who doesn't know what it means
another thing she did at the concert was during this song after "and never ever watch the ten o'clock news" she added "especially Fox" and laughed. she pronounced every syllable of especially, made it 4 syllables.
she's SO CUTE i just want to take her home with me :D...... |
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| Regina Spektor – Buildings Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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leeorama, i read your comment several months ago and it stuck with me. it's all i can think of when i hear this song and it makes perfect sense. i HATE that it's so depressing though. i hope that's not what it's about. |
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| Regina Spektor – Back of a Truck Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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i agree with philaphobic (love the name).
it's about GLUTTONY!
the girl gets so fat she dies
and then it talks about the gluttony of America; new york is a metonym for america
people become such gluttons that they kind of become monsters, as she ate her dog and had aliens for flowers and people are selling other people's heads
think of matilda blowing up the tv with the greedy people on it
god some of Regina's songs freak me out so much |
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| Regina Spektor – Dance Anthem of the 80's Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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i think the entire world should be a nudist colony and we should all just go around screwing each other, watching each other sleep, holding each other, and saying nice things |
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| Regina Spektor – Dance Anthem of the 80's Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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i think the entire world should be a nudist colony and we should all just go around screwing each other, watching each other sleep, holding each other, and saying nice things |
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| Regina Spektor – The Mustard Musketeers Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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i agree that it's about kids playing together and then growing up.
paper of plastic represents the choices they have to make in their lives.
and the last musketeer definitely died....his body went underground where all the flower seeds grow......
can't have a regina song without a reference to death! lol |
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| Regina Spektor – A Cannon Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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primadonna, i just looked up The Lady of Shalott and it really really reminds me of this song! though i don't think it's what Regina had in mind, i can definitely see the connection |
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| Regina Spektor – Poor Little Rich Boy Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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So I guess it is about Fitzgerald's story, but this is my interpretation.
The first time I ever heard of this song I was looking at the Soviet Kitsch lyric book and I said to my friend, "Wow, this song decribes every guy at my old school perfectly."
At my old school, popularity was the major obsession. Almost everyone lived in a mansion and grew up as cheerleaders and football players. Last year I noticed a definite pattern among most of the rich crowd, especially the guys - they were all amazingly smart and sensitive and tried really hard to hide this from the rest of the world for fear of losing what they had been taught was a perfect lifestyle.
I think this song is about a boy who, like most of my old school, had grown up surrounded by superficial people and things and is afraid to admit to himself and others that maybe his life isn't so perfect after all.
I think the chorus is about what he's afraid to hear - that he doesn't really love his superficial mother and girlfriend. I love that line, "She thinks that she’s fat
but she isn’t" from a boyfriend's point of view. He's just fed up with all the obsession with appearance and wealth.
I also love the next verse, "The water runs off your skin and down into the drain." It makes me think of him standing in the shower, just staring at the wall, not bothering to wash himself or anything. He's so confused he feels blank and dazed and the water just runs off his skin, not affecting him at all, just like the rest of the world. He's trying to break free from his mold in private, trying to find other lifestyles that seem less empty, like the stereotypical college student in the cafe. He's just unhappy with his life and trying to change it but he doesn't know how.
When Regina tells him he's "so goddamn young" she's reminding him that he's just a little boy, he doesn't need to have it all figured out yet, and that the weight of the world doesn't rest on his shoulders. He can relax.
Oh yeah and in the beginning I picture him at a party his parents are hosting and after everyone leaves he just feels empty and lonely. He was looking at all the couples and comparing them to him and his girlfriend but still couldn't figure out any secret to make himself love her (since it talks about her right after this verse).
Like I said, I think this is really about "The Rich Boy" but this is how I feel about it....and hey, maybe my interpretation actually relates to Anson. |
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