| Regina Spektor – Aquarius Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I've got a live version of this song in my iTunes library, and at one point she's very clearly crying. Her vibrato goes kind of hoarse, she says 'sorry' very quietly, and she sounds on the verge of tears for the rest of the song. | |
| Regina Spektor – Secret Stash (No One) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Sorry I didn't write this before, but when she says "you'll be your own piece of meat", she is longing for the day when she's well-off enough to be in control of her own body, instead of having it in someone else's control. | |
| Regina Spektor – Secret Stash (No One) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think this is about a prostitute who, although she has given her body to so many people to use, recognizes that she still has secrets and memories that cannot be taken away from her/used by someone else. It's about finding something personal in yourself that cannot be disturbed, no matter how degraded and/or used you feel. | |
| Regina Spektor – Music Box Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think this is just yearning for something different. The narrator is stuck in a boring routine so she improvises little tics to help entertain herself - i.e. her odd way of washing the dishes. | |
| Regina Spektor – Lulliby Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think this is just a rumination on 'the one that got away' - how s/he can't forget him/her even as time/seasons pass: "toenails changing color like the leaves of fall" A reference to both the changing of time ("leaves of fall") and personal changes ("toenails" - different colors of nail polish). "fire hydrant covered in snow" How the seasons change, again - fire hydrant being a metaphor for cool refreshment in summer eventually being covered in winter's snow. "Looking out the window at another window" - S/he feels detached from her/himself since being away from this person. |
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| Regina Spektor – Loveology Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think that many of the above posters were right in that it is a musing on how the most important things in life are never taught. "Loveology", "Stayology", "Pleaseology", "I'm-Sorryology", "Forgive-Meology", "Kissology" - how to cope in a relationship, "Busology", "Planeology", "Trainology" - how to move through your life easily, "Mamaology", "Papaology" - how to be part of a family, "Meology", "Youology" - how to develop your own identity and/or what it MEANS to have an identity, and "Porcupineology" and "Antlerology" - discreet metaphors for sex. Using these 'euphemisms' for sex may also be a jibe at how the education system balks at the prospect of sex education. Alternatively, or maybe simultaneously, I can read it as someone trying to apologize to their partner, trying to beseech them to stay with them and forgive them, but the person is too scared or too insecure to let all these feelings out at once so they disguise them in the midst of a stream of miscellaneous babble. "Open up your textbooks", "Let's study class" are saying that the 'narrator' is learning about these things through experience. |
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