| Regina Spektor – Après Moi Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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| Neko Case – Vengeance is Sleeping Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The lyrics are definitely: i didn't know what a brute i was i dipped my cigarette and rode the bus vengeance built me hastily and i dragged the clanging notion i was nobody, nobody nobody all i had was my invention and my love invented all of you oh look what thoughts can do what thoughts can do if you're not by now dead and buried you're most certifiably married oh married i'm sure you're sleeping sound with the mistress of the hours the hours that grind your life to dust your easy loves you keep like pets denied them, you are powerless whatever keeps you sleeping through the night i'm not the man you thought i was my love has never lived indoors i had to drag it home by force hired hounds at both my wrists damp and bruised by strangers' kisses on my lips but you're the one that i still miss you're the one that i still miss and it's ruthless that it comes as no surprise i'm not the man you think i am i'm not the man you think i am [From Neko's site] I love this song. I've always interpreted it as a bittersweet remembrance of a love lost. Everyone has that "one that got away", and this is a song about accepting that the person you've been in love with all this time really isn't as great as you remember. Hence "My love invented all of you", and "you're the one that I still miss/But its ruthless that it comes as no surprise". Almost as if she finally reconnected with this man and all of those years of wondering came crashing down. I also love the undertone of self-awareness, in the line "I dragged the clanging notion I was nobody, nobody, nobody." Kind of realizing that all this time you've thought so low of yourself that how could you have loved or been loved. I also like the idea of it being about a tomboy in love- "I'm not the man you think I am". Like she's saying, I do have feelings under this tough exterior. And the description of how she's loved int he past- "My love has never lived indoors"- through that entire stanza. She's always had these rough, unsatisfactory affairs, and she isn't what this man wanted. She isn't an "easy love". But all she wants is a love that can be peaceful and fit with her, and that's who she thought this man was- but in the end it wasn't to be. It all boils down to acceptance and realization- she's moving forward. She's growing. But it still sucks, it's still painful. But it's getting better. |
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