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| Ani DiFranco – Lost Woman Song Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Well, actually, it's only an intensely debated dilemma in the US. Not really much of an issue in most other developed countries. |
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| Regina Spektor – Carbon Monoxide Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The idea about the move to American being disapproved by her family doesn't sound right to me cause
a) Regina moved with her entire extended family
b) Trust me, during the perestroika EVERYONE wanted to get out out of the USSR, emigration was not looked down on. |
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| Regina Spektor – Carbon Monoxide Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Actually, it's kinda already been done - in "The House of Sand and Fog" - there's a similar suicide scene for a husband and wife, just not with gas. |
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| Regina Spektor – Hotel Song Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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My take on it is this is about a teenage girl who has an affair with a man who hooks on her cocaine. She goes through rehab to try to kick the habit (hence gold coins and being caught) but finds it imppossible to quit cause she's still with him and he feeds her addiction (wakes up and the bag of cocaine's already there). She wakes up in the hotel room while he's gone out and she sneaks out, bribing the porter not to tell her lover where she's gone. She realizes she has to end the realtionship to save herself but finds out that she's not his only lover and decides to warn the other girl before she ends up in the same mess as our heroine is (figures out her number on a paper napkin but doesn't know her address). |
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| Regina Spektor – Samson Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I really don't get the line "Beneath the stars came falling on our heads". It doesn't make sense gramatically. In the CD booklet it says: "I loved you first beneath
The stars came falling on our hats".
Now this makes even less sense - I loved you 1st beneath what? And why hats? |
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| Regina Spektor – Music Box Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Funny how so many of her songs feature suicidal ideas while she seems like an introverted, shy, but fairly optimistic person. This song reminds me a little of The Calculation - chirpy melody set to creepy lyrics about cutting hearts out and bleeding. |
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| Regina Spektor – Music Box Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Funny how so many of her songs feature suicidal ideas while she seems like an introverted, shy, but fairly optimistic person. This song reminds me a little of The Calculation - chirpy melody set to creepy lyrics about cutting hearts out and bleeding. |
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| Regina Spektor – Lacrimosa Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I can only say 1 thing - thank God Regina became more popular and less depressed... Songs like this just scare me. Actually, she has this thing for excrement, worms, earth and body parts - all of those themes are in On the Radio too. |
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| Regina Spektor – Lacrimosa Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I can only say 1 thing - thank God Regina became more popular and less depressed... Songs like this just scare me. Actually, she has this thing for excrement, worms, earth and body parts - all of those themes are in On the Radio too. |
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| Regina Spektor – Bobbing for Apples Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Don't you love how Regina is a quiet, shy woman from a good Russian Jewish family, is classically trained in piano yet throws more sex and drug references into her songs than you average middle-aged male rockstar? lol |
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| Regina Spektor – Ghost of Corporate Future Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Ah, there is a reason Regina treats 'f&*^" as as a completely random word. Her native language is Russian, and it has a an incredibly rich swearing vocabulary. The English one is simply pathetic compared to it lol So to her, 'f4$%^' doesn't really mean much so she just throws it around like a kid lol |
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| Regina Spektor – Ghost of Corporate Future Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Afatron, I'm in the exact same situation as you are! I assume you're a girl? I'm 22, and people terrify me. Actually, it makes sense that Regina wrote casue she a fairly shy person herself, it's her music that sort of protects her from the world around ger. |
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| Regina Spektor – Ghost of Corporate Future Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Afatron, I'm in the exact same situation as you are! I assume you're a girl? I'm 22, and people terrify me. Actually, it makes sense that Regina wrote casue she a fairly shy person herself, it's her music that sort of protects her from the world around her. |
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| Black Lips – Bad Kids Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I wonder why this is in teh 500 Days of Summer soundtrack if Tom and Summer are both college grad kids lol |
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| Regina Spektor – Genius Next Door Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Lots of people mentioend the masturbation/asphyxiation theme but i reckon it could be a different type of asphyxiation - one at birth. The majority of babies who suffocate at birth suffer brain damage. This is why most end up with either autism, or some mental disorder. The lucky few are very smart, introverted and anti-social types who still manage to function in everyday life working, 'bussing tables'. This connects with the genius idea. In fact, I think, this whole song is Regina's wink and a nod at the smart, alienated young people who make up a major part of her audience. I mean, who else would be pulling apart her incredibly complex lyrics with such enthusiasm? |
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| Regina Spektor – Genius Next Door Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Also, the 1st verse seriously reminds me of the Chernobyl catastrophe. Regina was still in Russia when it happened. The government tried to cover it up, not evacuating people so many died and got sick from radiation. And the people still 'went,swimming, drinking' not knowing what happened and that the air and water was radioactive. |
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| Regina Spektor – Genius Next Door Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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41 min ago
Rated 0 Has anyone ever thought that the Genius Next Door is Regina herself? Just think, she's a naturally quiet, fairly shy person who pours all her self-expression into her music. She spent most of her teenage years working very hard on practicing piano to be a classical pianist - a very, very nerdy aspiration for any 'cool' teenager. On top of that she's a migrant and Jewish. She was porbably teased as a child in Russia for being Jewish and for being a migrant as a teen in America. But she has this musical-poetic gift which made her into a cult singer-songwriter known across many countries.
She spent her early 20s working odd jobs 'bussing tables' and at night she did what she truly loved - performed her songs at local venues, late at night 'while everyone was sleeping'. The film crews are the media attention she received after releasing 'Begin to Hope' and to her great shock realised that her music became popular and she became the 1st migrant off the post-Soviet sopace to make it into the American music industry (and be lauded by critics). But she's not interested in media attention thus she's sleeping like the genius. Here the chorus is optimistic: "No matter how much you're ostracized, hold in your breath and live through it till you come back up again. Don't get upset by it, you foolish child".
Perhaps the 'orgasm; is her sense of fulfillment now that she can bring her music to the world and she's loved and appreciated and sells well. I remember her saying after a concert that she's high from playing and she looked utterly hyper which is so unlike her lol It's her natural high, her orgasm.
I can't imagine humble Regina calling herself a genius even though everyone else does, but perhaps it is a story about another gifted boy/girl inspired by her own.
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| Regina Spektor – Genius Next Door Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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41 min ago
Rated 0 Has anyone ever thought that the Genius Next Door is Regina herself? Just think, she's a naturally quiet, fairly shy person who pours all her self-expression into her music. She spent most of her teenage years working very hard on practicing piano to be a classical pianist - a very, very nerdy aspiration for any 'cool' teenager. On top of that she's a migrant and Jewish. She was porbably teased as a child in Russia for being Jewish and for being a migrant as a teen in America. But she has this musical-poetic gift which made her into a cult singer-songwriter known across many countries.
She spent her early 20s working odd jobs 'bussing tables' and at night she did what she truly loved - performed her songs at local venues, late at night 'while everyone was sleeping'. The film crews are the media attention she received after releasing 'Begin to Hope' and to her great shock realised that her music became popular and she became the 1st migrant off the post-Soviet sopace to make it into the American music industry (and be lauded by critics). But she's not interested in media attention thus she's sleeping like the genius. Here the chorus is optimistic: "No matter how much you're ostracized, hold in your breath and live through it till you come back up again. Don't get upset by it, you foolish child".
Perhaps the 'orgasm; is her sense of fulfillment now that she can bring her music to the world and she's loved and appreciated and sells well. I remember her saying after a concert that she's high from playing and she looked utterly hyper which is so unlike her lol It's her natural high, her orgasm.
I can't imagine humble Regina calling herself a genius even though everyone else does, but perhaps it is a story about another gifted boy/girl inspired by her own.
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| Regina Spektor – Genius Next Door Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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41 min ago
Rated 0 Has anyone ever thought that the Genius Next Door is Regina herself? Just think, she's a naturally quiet, fairly shy person who pours all her self-expression into her music. She spent most of her teenage years working very hard on practicing piano to be a classical pianist - a very, very nerdy aspiration for any 'cool' teenager. On top of that she's a migrant and Jewish. She was porbably teased as a child in Russia for being Jewish and for being a migrant as a teen in America. But she has this musical-poetic gift which made her into a cult singer-songwriter known across many countries.
She spent her early 20s working odd jobs 'bussing tables' and at night she did what she truly loved - performed her songs at local venues, late at night 'while everyone was sleeping'. The film crews are the media attention she received after releasing 'Begin to Hope' and to her great shock realised that her music became popular and she became the 1st migrant off the post-Soviet sopace to make it into the American music industry (and be lauded by critics). But she's not interested in media attention thus she's sleeping like the genius. Here the chorus is optimistic: "No matter how much you're ostracized, hold in your breath and live through it till you come back up again. Don't get upset by it, you foolish child".
Perhaps the 'orgasm; is her sense of fulfillment now that she can bring her music to the world and she's loved and appreciated and sells well. I remember her saying after a concert that she's high from playing and she looked utterly hyper which is so unlike her lol It's her natural high, her orgasm.
I can't imagine humble Regina calling herself a genius even though everyone else does, but perhaps it is a story about another gifted boy/girl inspired by her own.
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| Regina Spektor – Genius Next Door Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Has anyone ever thought that the Genius Next Door is Regina herself? Just think, she's a naturally quiet, fairly shy person who pours all her self-expression into her music. She spent most of her teenage years working very hard on practicing piano to be a classical pianist - a very, very nerdy aspiration for any 'cool' teenager. On top of that she's a migrant and Jewish. She was porbably teased as a child in Russia for being Jewish and for being a migrant as a teen in America. But she has this musical-poetic gift which made her into a cult singer-songwriter known across many countries.
She spent her early 20s working odd jobs 'bussing tables' and at night she did what she truly loved - performed her songs at local venues, late at night 'while everyone was sleeping'. The film crews are the media attention she received after releasing 'Begin to Hope' and to her great shock realised that her music became popular and she became the 1st migrant off the post-Soviet sopace to make it into the American music industry (and be lauded by critics). But she's not interested in media attention thus she's sleeping like the genius. Here the chorus is optimistic: "No matter how much you're ostracized, hold in your breath and live through it till you come back up again. Don't get upset by it, you foolish child".
I don't know how to fit in the 'orgasm' line and I also can't imagine humble Regina calling herself a genius even though everyone else does, but perhaps it is a story about another gifted boy/girl inspired by her own. |
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