| R.E.M. – So. Central Rain Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Guys think about this. I really think this song alludes to the song "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver. If you listen to both songs they have similar melodies. In the middle each song has a variation on the melody, which sound very similar in both songs. (I learned this after listening to Country Roads and thinking the middle part reminded me of something and then I listened to So. Central Rain on my iPod.) Here is some more evidence for why I think this: As someone mentioned before on this page (maybe a few people, I just saw someone say it) this song is I think about what somebody said (it was michaelwood who said he was agreeing with driver08uk), "It is about waiting for a phone call which is not coming because - unknown to the singer - a flood has washed the phone lines away so as the singer waits for the call he wonders why she is not calling and mentally pulls apart the relationship they have." It says "Eastern to Mountain third party call, the lines are down" which I think is a response someone calling from the Eastern time zone to the Mountain time zone might get when they dial the number and the lines are down. Those two time zones if you look on a US map are separated for the most part by the South Central states. This song is called So. Central rain so I think one person is trying to call the other but the rain made the lines go down. The reason I think the locations are significant is because the lead singer of R.E.M. was born in Georgia, which is at the south of the Eastern time zone and John Denver who wrote Country Roads was born in New Mexico and his favorite state was Colorado. (New Mexico may or may not be considered part of South Central United States but Colorado is. I'm not sure what the significance of this is but they're both in the Mountain time zone.) Anyway, one of the lyrics is "The wise man built his home upon the rocks, but I'm not bound to follow suit." I didn't look too much into this but I found out that this is probably a reference to the bible where there was someone who built a house on a rock and there was a flood but it didn't affect the house. I think the rock refers to the southern Mountain time zone states because the Grand Canyon is in the southern Mountain time zone and (I'm sorry if this is a bit ignorant of me, I'm from the Northeast so correct me if I'm wrong) I think the states around Arizona can be rocky. I think it's possible that the singer lives in the Eastern time zone, the person he is talking about lives in the Mountain time zone and after calling her and finding out that the lines are down the relationship drifts away. He says that if he was wise, he would "build his home on the rocks" meaning move to where she lives in the west and make their relationship stable. But I'm theorizing that since I think the theme of Take me Home, Country Roads runs through the song, he wants to stay at home, and because of their distance from each other, the rain is washing their relationship away. Finally this song is entitled "So. Central Rain" in which a C followed by an R are the same initial letters as in "Country Roads" which is part of the John Denver song title, and that phrase is repeated many times in that song. I mean it could be a coincidence but I really like my theory. And I didn't even know any of these facts that I stated, before. I just looked them up to try to see if my theory worked or if there was no connection between the two songs I was talking about. It's awesome and refreshing to put your faith in the idea that people usually really mean something with their words when they write songs or poems or books or other things... |
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| Regina Spektor – Loveology Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| And the song is called Loveology, which kind of sounds like "love all"-ogy. With this title, maybe Regina Spektor is proposing that we should ask ourselves how to love all people. | |
| Regina Spektor – The Flowers Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| And not sleeping assures that everything is okay. She will never know for sure if she rests, and it could be saying that people even after a bad event (going with my theme) still can't rest. But the uplifting music later shows hope in the narrator, becuase there is nothing that she can do but to just pick herself back up, and according to jewish culture "that always happens" so there is hope and it shows the strength of the jewish culture. Again, I might be compleeetely wrong. | |
| Regina Spektor – The Flowers Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| And not sleeping assures that everything is okay. She will never know for sure if she rests, and it could be saying that people even after a bad event (going with my theme) still can't rest. But the uplifting music later shows hope in the narrator, becuase there is nothing that she can do but to just pick herself back up, and according to jewish culture "that always happens" so there is hope and it shows the strength of the jewish culture. Again, I might be compleeetely wrong. | |
| Regina Spektor – The Flowers Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Oh and she actually said her name in this song, which is crazy. So she must be referring the feelings of the "main character" to herself. | |
| Regina Spektor – The Flowers Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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For some reason, I thought this song could be about the Holocaust - the Jewish mentality after the Holocaust. Let me know if I'm crazy. Or disrespectful to Jewish people in some way. I thought in the end of the song, the melody was jewish (I haven't gotten that confirmed). Also, I'm not trying to say jewish people are cheap - but, I read a graphic novel about the Holocaust called "Maus," and in it the father of the main character who survived through the entirety of the Holocaust, would always not want to throw things away, and his son (they were both mice xD) would tell him to throw some object away. (Yeah, that's what I just confirmed, http://www.gradesaver.com/maus/study-guide/section4/). That story says that a need to keep things was developed during the Holocaust for him because things were scarse. I think this song is about the fear that something will be taken away from you. The singer is getting defensive when she says "Things I have loved I'm allowed to keep" even though it may be unreasonable. And the main character can't seem to go to sleep or to rest, even after everything is alright. The Jewish (to me) sounding melody in the end made me think this could be the meaning to this song, and wasn't there book burning during the Holocaust (taking the knife to the books)? maybe it's a dream of hers, that verse about possibly ruining books - the way she described it makes it sound like the description of a dream. I mean she does talk about sleep, and maybe -- oh! If she goes to sleep, she will forget that she can now keep things that she loved because she has nightmares about something bad... a giant paper-back mummy, making soup out of stone, ruining her books. I don't really know if this song could be about more than that, since she talks about holding on to something good, like something she has loved or flower bulbs that have not opened, so maybe there is something good she is remembering. Also, the melody in the end is kind of uplifting. If the melody IS actually Jewish like it seems to me, it can represent the resiliency of the Jewish culture. (I was in Fiddler on the Roof in high school, and it made me think of this idea ><.) How, bad things ended up happenning to Jewish people in history, but they always bring themselves back out of it. Overall, it's not a song about the Holocaust itself obviously, but living after something horrible, and being shaken up by it, a post-Holocaust Jewish mentality, even if a generation later. Regina herself said in an interview that she has inherited a jewish mentality from her grandparents. I might be wrong though, there's probably not that much Jewish-ness in this song... |
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| Regina Spektor – Eet Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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To me, this song is about losing easiness in life. When I began listening to the lyrics of this song, I thought the "easy" thing could be about childhood. I notice myself right now very often, trying to "fall behind" into when I was younger, a teenager, or a middle-schooler, wanting to pursue a hobby that is easy and that I did in the past because the difficult college life is tugging me out of the simpleness of life and out of the freedom. So when she said "you spend half of your life trying to fall behind" it seemed to me like she meant people wanted to remember what childhood was like and be like this, until they gave up ("half-way" through their lives.) The lyrics that reaffirmed my thought that Regina might have been talking about trying to remember innocence and childhood, were the lyrics about the small boy, and how this man (or woman) who is deciding to steal is thinking about the child. As someone pointed out that the person who wants to steal maybe is poor with a poor family, this song could be about his difficulty to kind of go with the flow anymore, because he's about to do something that isn't easy and is real. And therefore the loss of childhood, and the freedom and easiness that comes with it. Life was so easy for him before he sat in this room deciding whether or not to steal. (He is behind a window, so it may symbolize his lack of freedom, being locked from the chill breeze and the outside world.) So maybe in a way this song is about losing innocence? Or trying to gain it back again? The fact that he opens the window to, perhaps symbolically, freedom, and behind this window lies the small boy, may mean that... well, that thinking about this boy, or the lesson the boys' interaction teaches him about stealing, is his way out, his salvation, his realization? "a window was opened for him." maybe by thinking back into his childhood he is opening a window/finding a way out. Aka, song about gaining back innocence. Or looking into innocence = a good thing. (Inspires good in people? We don't know if the man (or woman) decided not to steal. Maybe he doesn't. I do really like what someone said about people not giving others who are poor or need it, their "turn"; "the brother not letting him try.") |
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| Regina Spektor – Eet Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Hahah, sorry about saying "man or woman" all the time - I now realize regina spektor referred to the person with "he." I was just thinking about how she said "someone." | |
| Regina Spektor – Man of a Thousand Faces Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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okay, "staring at the moon like he knows her," and "sits at his window" and "begins his quiet ascention" are all slightly negative images and ideas. they show loneliness. she is saying it's *like* he knows the moon in "like her knows her." it's as if the man is trying to find someone he knows, but it's in his imagination. the song refers to how things "used to" be. it's kind of nostaligic/melancholy when it shifts that way. the things she talks about like "ripping out his favorite pages" and oh! and "putting them in his breast pocket" (reference to the heart!) - even the way she sings about them - are kinda more positive. at least everything else, not in the past, sounds kinda sad, even in the way she sings some of the words. look at her video, and it's all psychadelic-ish. I really think she's talking about drugs and how they changed the man. and how they became his practice based on his ideas. (somoene else mentioned "a lump of sugar, and go from there" as an interpretation) the line "good is better than perfect" goes along with a drugs are good attitude. why try to be perfect, like religion is trying to make people, or like you have to try to be in religion, when you can experience something that feels good. perfection is... pefect, no flaws, good actually is good. even though that logic is plausible, she still says "good" a very common, normal, almost indifferent word. (instead of "incredible," a feeling that you may get out of some of the things regina sings about in other songs). the next line - "scrub till your fingers are bleeding" - kinda scary. this is something he may say - both lines employ good logic but are kind of sad anyway =\ so then the point of the song could be the loneliness and sadness that he feels, sittin' there with no one quietly at the window of his home (looking out at the moon, almost reaching out for something), taking the "lump of sugar" (drug) (sinful - that's why no religion goes there, it's kind of his own religion), and getting farther from religion/organization and people becuase he does not believe in those things he does not believe in this organization - he's one of those people who "tells others" to not believe in it. he is saying "and I’m crying for things that/I tell others to do without crying." he is being hypocritical in his belief that like screw organized religion/people(or whatever she's talking about there), and go find your own "God" in drugs and just feel good isntead of trying to act perfect. but he's still crying and yearning for people one thing I would recommend is listening to how the song sounds and "Man of a Thousand Faces". well I don't know what to say about the title in regards to this, but I can impart that when I first saw the title while waiting for the video to load, and tried to think about it, I thought maybe that could mean that there is a man behind many faces - that people can be different but there's something behind their mask that unites them. |
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