| Regina Spektor – Braille Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think the reference to "blowing out candles, blowing out dreams" refers to the child getting older and blowing out candles on a cake, and how being a single parent often leads to broken dreams. I also doubt it's about abortion, simply because the whole theme of the song - tracing stretch marks left by pregnancy and equating that to reading the story of her life - rests on the fact that stretch marks come with carrying a child to term. And one doesn't get the stretch marks if one doesn't actually carry the child. |
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| Regina Spektor – Pavlov's Daughter Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| When she says "my name is Lucille" she DEFINATELY sound Tori Amos-esque, although when she's rapping I think she sounds a little like Ani Difranco. And with both comparisons I mean purely on voice, not that the music sounds like that of either Tori or Ani. The music and lyrics are pure Regina ;) | |
| Regina Spektor – Buildings Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think it's about a woman who's an alcoholic and her husband, who stands by her. I think the buildings reference is what he says to himself almost as a mantra for why there is still hope that despite how bad off she is ,there is still hope for her to get better. As in "he would hold her hair back and hope, saying "they build buildings so tall these days...", "he'd give her time saying they build buildings so tall these days". If you notice it's always HIM saying "they build buildings so tall"... he holds her hair back, cleans her up constantly saying to himself "if they can build buildings so tall, anything is possible - she can get better so I'll continue to wait and support her". |
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| Amanda Palmer – Another Year: A Short History of Almost Something Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think this song is about CHOOSING not to get over a broken heart just yet. I feel like her friends are getting a little fed up that she's still broken up about it after a year "they mime their sighing violins". It seems to me like she's so heartbroken over the loss of a relationship that she's just not ready to let it go. "I want my chest pressed to your chest / ten or elven months have passed / think I'll wait another year" is almost like "I want this so keenly even after all this time that I'm going to give myself another year to grieve for it". She realises that in the grand scheme of things a year isn't a long time to wait when she's 26 and could live to 83. The last verse especially makes me think it's what the song is about. It's almost saying "so I choose to still yearn for you for another year - how about you join me, being some beer and smokes and it'll be the best year ever". | |
| Amanda Palmer – Ampersand Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song had to grow on me, but now that it has a like it a lot. I agree with others- it's about not wanting to be the other half to someone else's whole. When I listen to the song I get the image of a slightly obsessive ex boyfriend who plays the "I can't live without you/you're my everything" card - "but you were awful adament that if I didn't love you then you have just one alternative". To me this song is a response to that sort of behaviour - that she can only be herself, and has no time for the concept of only being seen as one half of "you & me". It's the realisation that it's this very sort of thinking that drives a person crazy, and if you enter into it you "lose your voice completely". |
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| Amanda Palmer – Guitar Hero Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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When I listen to this song I get an image of someone writing a letter about a bunch of college kids hanging out in a dorm room playing guitar hero and "making out to faces of death" (which is a video of real-life executions/murders usually watched by the same boys that frequent rotten.com). So I get that image, then an image of those same boys in Iraq and feeling a sense of suprise and almost outrage that shooting people is actually real, and not just another video game. I kinda feel like the writer (narrator/observer, if you prefer), is the only ony who realises the reality of the situation and the fact that there are plenty more boys where they came from - best illustrated in the line "and I could save you baby but it isn't worth my time, 'cause even if I saved you there's a million more in line". |
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| Amanda Palmer – The Point of It All Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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My best friend since childhood has a drug habit and over the past few years has become completely distant and impossible to reply on. He picked up a new group of friends - complete losers - and pretty much disappeared into the whole lifestyle. The first time I heard this song I immediately drew the parallel from this situation to the song. The sarcastic "oh what a noble disinguished collection of fine little friends you have made", the wry observation of how relying on an addict to turn up when planned with the "you're aces for coming along, you're almost human even now". I find it difficult to see the song as being about anything else, but I may be biased. |
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| Damien Rice – The Professor & La Fille Danse Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is the first time I've done this, so bear with me. I get the impression from the first verse that he and a woman had a sexual relationship, and she left him because of this. To elaborate: "Well I don't know if I'm wrong Cause she's only just gone Here's to another relationship Bombed by excellent breed of gamete disease I'm sure when I'm older I'll know what that means" ... this sounds to me like she left with a bit of a parting shot, referring to his emotional immaturity - both by describing him as having a"gamete disease" and the line about knowing what it means when older. Sounds kind of snide to me, like her being just over his emotional immaturity and dependance of pure sex. "Loving is good if your dick's made of wood And the dick left inside only half understood her What makes her come and what makes her stay?" ....I think the "dick" in the second line is actually him insulting himself. As in "I'm the dick who only half understood her. My penis could satisfy her sexually but emotioanlly I had no clue, so she left" |
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