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| The Pretty Reckless – Just Tonight Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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This song seems to be about one of those empty but addicting relationships that people sometimes find themselves in. She realizes it and thinks constantly about escape, but can't bring herself to leave. Every time she considers leaving, her weak side insists on "just tonight." Like a smoker trying to quit but saying "Maybe one more cigarette and I'm done, I promise"- but obviously that one more cigarette leads to another one. I don't think the relationship is necessarily abusive- these two people are just not right for each other or just don't know how to be in a healthy relationship. For example, there's no communication- "You're too drunk to hear a word I say." She also asks him, "Do you understand who I am?" etc., indicating that there might not be any real intimacy in the relationship. However, she's so hooked on BEING in the relationship that she can't bring herself to end it. She's having trouble making an escape plan, if you will- "I can't think from all the pills." The song is her acknowledging that she put herself in this situation, keeps putting herself in this situation and that she needs to stop. |
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| Regina Spektor – All the Rowboats Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Well actually it makes more sense to say that the violins have "forgotten how to sing" because we've been neglecting them...We spend all our time on the other side of the glass, merely admiring what we don't understand, and have stopped creating...the violins could represent the artistic side of man. And it is that side of us that is dying. |
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| Regina Spektor – All the Rowboats Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think there’s a message here deeper than our tactless treatment of great art. She’s lamenting our inability to understand/interpret it. That’s why she writes, “Hear them whispering, French and German/ Dutch, Italian and Latin.” It’s especially significant that she mentions Latin, which is considered a “dead language.” She later proceeds to say, “But the most special are the most lonely”: the deepest, most complicated artwork are the most misunderstood. Then, “God, I pity the violins/ In the glass ocffins, they keep coughin’/ They’ve forgotten, forgotten how to sing, how to sing.” Here she presents a picture of death. People’s failure to understand great art is causing its detrioration…we’ve reached the point where we can no longer produce anything artistic (“singing” is a metaphor for the creation of art).
BEAUTIFUL song. I’ve just discovered Regina Spektor and have been listening to her songs all day in addition to hanging around songmeanings.net (because I don’t understand a lot of them, ha). I should really get back to doing my humanities paper on Dostoevsky…Ugh, procrastination. But Regina’s music is a worthwhile distraction!
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