| CocoRosie – Werewolf Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Even though it would make for a more scandalous story, I don't think this song has anything to do with molestation. If that were the case, there would be a lot more lines suggesting that. The song is incredibly biographic: their father and mother divorced when they were young, and the sisters were raised apart; Bianca, the younger of the two, lived with their dad (a native american shaman,) until she was around fifteen, but eventually dropped out of school and lived as a drifter - as her father did. This song seems to be about Bianca's realization that she doesn't want to live like her father, but she also must learn from the way he is, in order to grow and to keep herself grounded. The parallels between this song and "Promise," from the same album, are uncanny and bare mentioning. It should be noted that in Promise, the narrator is giving a "tarnished offering," which she describes as "crystal light" between her thighs, and pleads that her werewolf not run away from her. It's important to see this parallel, because then the sound clip from the beginning is given a little context - He is the lover that she is leaving. She has done a lot of thinking (about her life and her father, in particular,) and decided to keep herself "sacred*," so to speak. *(note that the lyrics in the middle of the songs should say: "In a dream my FATHER came to me and made me swear that I'd keep what's sacred to me and if I had the choice to LIVE in his name I'd pray my way through the rain singing oh happy day") |
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| Regina Spektor – Après Moi Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song isn't about people being in love, and I think that is what makes it hard for people to see how clear cut it is. After the French Revolution, France became a socialist nation, which is what the stanzas about being afraid boil down to. Taxes are raised so the poor can have more money and health care, and a lot of other compromises are made. This is seen from the point of few of Court, who see this as bad. The poem is referenced because the aristocrats and royalty in France would suffer, but they were inevitable going to suffer so they should prepare for it and wallow in it, because that is the only thing to do. |
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| Regina Spektor – Pavlov's Daughter Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is about going against the grain. Pavlov's daughter doesn't go against the grain, but Regina does. She's seasoned at getting out of doing mundane things like work and school ('what'd you think, I was an amateur playing with my temperature,') and she either knows someone else or longs to know someone else ('Lucille,') who feels the same way about trying to stay out of 'the machine.' She hates cliches, and threatens to go to Babylon (a district in NY,) to drink if she hears another. Also, an ambulance circles a building, waiting for someone to die (presumably a common occurrence.) When it doesn't happen, there is an ambulance responding to an emergency that never happened and never will. This is as futile as celebrating the rain forest by throwing paper (a ticker tape parade,) over it, or celebrating Regina's conformity (which isn't real,) to 'go downstream,' or along with everyone else ('where it isn't even real,') and become part of the machine. The irony in celebrating something that she'd hate to do. |
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