| Regina Spektor – Eet Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song struck me as I listened to it a few times. Regina seems to have a remarkable talent for creating or having created videos that express the song so well. What first struck me was the line, "You're using your headphones to drown out your mind," which described what I was doing without even realizing it to a T. Or Y, in this case, since there are no ts in that line. It's curious, because she has this amazing symbolic gift that I've found can apply to so many things that is amplified by many of her videos. For example, when the locket breaks in Fidelity, my mind still reels back in both horror and hope. Who hasn't forgotten the words to their favorite song? How many other things to life can that be applied to? Something so familiar vanishes from your accessible memory. It's still there, but there seems to be a wall blocking it from you. You grasp, you search, you know it's there, but you just can't find it. Someone above mentioned losing something familiar, but this can also apply to moving away from something familiar, or losing that passion you used to have for something familiar. Even the lines about a small boy not being able to try because of his brother... We learn, we gain far more experience and wisdom from trying than we do being taught, but how many times has someone "wiser" than you stopped you from learning a critical life lesson? How many times have you stopped someone, remembering the pain of the lesson, from doing the same thinking it was for their good? So much of the song speaks to so many aspects, and the symbolism is vague enough, yet profound enough, that I think you can identify with elements no matter where you are. This woman has a gift, and I look forward to hearing more of what she writes! |
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| Dave Matthews Band – You Never Know (Busted Stuff version) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This has been one of my favorite songs of all time. The delicate balance of despair and hope in the words as well as in the music itself seems to so closely emulate the contradictory thoughts and emotions that seem to plague everyone. It starts out with someone sitting and observing people, recognizing the self-imposed isolation so ingrained in people they don't even realize there's another option. With the theme of the song seeming to revolve around death and a search for meaning and/or God, the connection is made that in this condition people wouldn't even recognize the answer if it shuffled by. Yet, we find the person lamenting this is, themselves, doing much the same -- not interacting, just lamenting the sorry state of affairs. It's interesting to note, too, that it is said Abraham sat counting the suns in the sky the night he died, counting the number of descendants God had promised him. That story seems to sum up the song pretty well in and of itself, with Abraham having been given a dream by God. Yet, for all of his life, he had hope and faith alone that God would do so. God said Abraham's descendants would number the sands on the shore and the stars in the sky. Even though he died having but one son God had promised (and possibly 2 grandchildren by that time), he died dreaming and believing. The reference to all falling down could hold two meanings, in one being death, but the other being falling into a depravity or darkness. Yet, out of that darkness comes light like a flash, that realization that it can change, or the discovery of what has been missing. We surge forward suddenly, thinking we can break free from the chains of darkness holding us, but sometimes we fail, which can send us spiraling further into that darkness. The most profound line for me was that every day should be a good day to die, because it's true. You never know what's lying on the other side of 24 hours, so every day should be lived without regrets, taking advantage of every opportunity, knowing it could be your last, yet still hold onto your dreams of tomorrow. Finally, we have the crux of the issue -- it's hard to explain how we got here. Were we created? If so, by who? We so often think we have the answer. We think we can explain it. Yet, so often we falter in doing so. As the writer of the book of Hebrews in the Bible wrote, faith is believing in what is unseen. Yet, at times that faith may falter for that very reason. An excellent song, if I do say so myself. As to the everyday should be a good day to die reference to the album Everyday, the song is much older than Busted Stuff. I have a CD someone left in my story shortly after Crash came out of a bootleg concert where this (and The Maker) were played. Also, I believe the lines, "Oh, fall down" are actually, "All fall down," though I could be wrong. It seems like that would fit better with the topic of the verses they kick off as well. |
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