| Regina Spektor – Laughing With Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I don't know if this is what Regina meant when she wrote the thing, but, after my first time listening, I came away with the feeling that the song was blackly humorous (though maybe I just think that way). The entire time I thought it was a pro-religion song (albeit one using flawed logic were it meant to in some way prove the existence of a deity) and then that last line came out of nowhere and turned the song upside down (something I always enjoy). It means that during all of these times we're NOT laughing with God, we're laughing WITH him at the suffering of others. Ha, ha. | |
| Patrick Park – Life is a Song Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Maybe it's just me, but it sounds like a song about religion. "Oh, it's time to let go of everything we used to know/Ideas that strengthen who we've been" for instance, fits the bill. "You say that you know that the good Lord's in control He's gonna bless and keep your tired and oh so restless soul But at the end of the day when every price has been paid You're gonna rise and sit beside him on some old seat of gold And won't you tell me why you live like you're afraid to die You'll die like you're afraid to go" made me think of how people try so hard to get into heaven but, deep down, no thinking person can truly believe such a thing as absolute fact. Also, the final line "Always forget how strange it is just to be alive at all" reminds me of a Douglas Adams quote. "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it, too?" |
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