| Regina Spektor – Human of the Year Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Very nice, I agree and finally signed up on this site just to reply to your comment, sheela_l. One definitely can't interpret the lyrics without having heard the song. Many tracks by the Beatles would seem quite dark and ironic if you would look just at the lyrics, without having heard the tracks. I too think that she's trying to tell a story about an average man, she does that quite often in fact. I always imagine that she must have shy men in mind who can do great things but just lack the confidence to even accept their honours like Mr. Prejektorinski here. Also, I absolutely agree with you on the critique of religion. I just got her new album and looked all the lyrics up, it comes up again and again. If there's only a hint of religion everyone automatically assumes it's a critique of religion. I think it's a little offensive to think that a great lyricist like Regina would occupy herself so much with only one subject like that, when her mind is clearly filled with much more fantastic ideas than only concern for an obvious problem. In general though, I agree it's probably critique of idolisation of arbitrary figures like incoherentlove said. |
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