| Regina Spektor – Call Them Brothers Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think it's about the Berlin Wall, perhaps? "And chip at the bricks and fill up your pockets With the pieces of the wall you stole" And it's about splitting things... maybe the city is split and can't ever really be whole again? |
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| Regina Spektor – Call Them Brothers Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think it's about the Berlin Wall, perhaps? "And chip at the bricks and fill up your pockets With the pieces of the wall you stole" And it's about splitting things... maybe the city is split and can't ever really be whole again? |
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| Local Natives – Wide Eyes Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Is he talking about Jesus? People put him on their tongues, he starved himself for like 40 days (not quite ten months, but, you know)... I don't know, that doesn't really fit with the "evil spirit" thing in the beginning. Either way, beautiful song. | |
| Regina Spektor – Dust to Dust Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| "haunting" is definitely the right word for this song. | |
| Regina Spektor – Woolen Gloves Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's like those days when you're snug inside yourself but you can't seem to connect with others. Some days you just have to ball up in your thoughts and no one can reach out to you that way. It's not necessarily sad, just thoughtful. | |
| Regina Spektor – The Sword and the Pen Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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@raephe: i don't think she's directly condemning religion or anything, she's just saying, "once you're dead, you're dead." even if there is an afterlife or anything, your body remains empty. i think this song is (partly) about lost writing/poetry. the saying goes that "the pen is mightier than the sword." but here, she's wondering "what if the sword kills the pen?" what if violence and cruelty and physicality overcome the ancient words that have survived so many generations? i especially love: "For those who still can recall The desperate colors of fall" because only a writer sees colors as "desperate," only a poet can capture the feeling you get from a season. if the sword does kill the pen, then that description and that way of looking at life is lost. but yeah, i also felt that it was "russian" although i can't say i know much about russian music. it's "the flowers"-esque, though. |
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| Regina Spektor – Man of a Thousand Faces Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| i love the part about the man ripping out his favorite pages from books and putting them in his breast pocket. imagery points to regina! | |
| Regina Spektor – School Is Out Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| you can go on youtube and search for it... it's there, was just released recently | |
| Regina Spektor – Chicken Song Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i think it might be "i'm slipping through" but i'm not sure i like this song a lot, though i didn't at first. |
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| Regina Spektor – Begin to Hope Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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@ crow heart: there's a slightly better version on respektonline.com, the paradise lounge version. this song is so pretty! i read an interview with her somewhere that she called the album begin to hope so that if someone saw it in a store or on a poster, people would have a little morale-booster. so it seems to me like the album came before the song? |
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| Regina Spektor – The Virgin Queen Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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this song gives me chills. especially the shakespeare part and the vocalizing thing. spektacular. |
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| Regina Spektor – Small Town Moon Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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to listentothemusic 1: yeah i totally see that! he wants to leave his life, but he can't without "hurting everyone who made me" and the whole moon thing makes sense too. |
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| Regina Spektor – Genius Next Door Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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hmmm... maybe i'm just being shallow but i tend to take regina's songs as they are... i think the meaning is pretty literal, basically what juliaspaperbags said. but, no disrepekt! |
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| Regina Spektor – Belt Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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this is the happiest song i've ever heard about domestic abuse. i love the "upside down frown" part, so clever! |
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| Regina Spektor – Bon Idée Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i hate to nitpick, because i love reg and this song is beautiful... but isnt it "bonne idee"? anyway, this song is great. |
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| Regina Spektor – Blue Lips Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I just read Anna Karenina, and the idea of religious awakening happening while surrounded by nature reminded me of when Levin discovers faith at the end of the novel. I know Regina usually writes songs with characters in mind, could this be it? |
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