| Regina Spektor – Making Records Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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So this song kind of changed, for me, everything I ever knew or thought I knew about Regina. It's haunting and sad and you can feel an inherent emptiness that's not in her other music. So first of all, in the first verse she says that she sings all by, to and from herself, suggesting that her music is very personal to her. This idea is reinforced by the use of the phrase "this is my corazón" which means heart in Spanish. After this there seems to be a conflict about her music and her recording of it, her sharing of parts of her that are so intimate. She's scared that sharing such intimacies with strangers, to be played whenever or wherever ("anytime anywhere") without her knowing will make her "obsolete", even though she's "glad that they exist". She can feel that recording loses something special, something real about them which she interprets as better even though, after seeing her live, i beg to differ. And she worries what people will think about it, admitting that she "make(s) shit up all the time", maybe she worries about what people will think of her or read into her lyrics. And she wants to do what she wants to do, be who she is, without intervention of anyone else "I am drunk and there's no-one here to stop me being so drunk and being so lonely" With the phrase/idea about braiding records into her hair I think it's about keeping all of her music to herself. I mean we all know how many songs Regina has written, and never released, because she's doing it for her herself! (in the least selfish way possible). I love this song but it seriously breaks my heart and I can't wait to see her live again so that I can feel her without the barrier of a recording where she feels like she has lost a part of herself... how magical it would be to hear her sing this song live... |
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| Damien Rice – Delicate Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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i think that maybe this song is about his singing partner - Lily It says "why'd you sing with me at all" and "why'd you sing hallelujah if it meant nothing to 'ya" this was one of the songs that she sang with him. She also quit the band and isn't with him anymore. just a thought. Also maybe the song Lonelily is about her aswell, (the title) thanks:) |
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