| Regina Spektor – Aquarius Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Beautiful. How are you supposed to make something of yourself when you were dealt a shit hand to begin with? Sometimes, the odds are just not in your favor. Sometimes, no matter how honest and kind-hearted you live your life, you can't dig yourself out of the trench that you were born in. It's not your fault. Life isn't always fair, it doesn't always make sense. |
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| Regina Spektor – The One Who Stayed and the One Who Left Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Hands down my favorite song on this album. Each man represents a different way of living his life. One likes the sheltered, routine life he has grown comfortable with; the other, who I relate to myself, loves to travel, experience new things, and never really stay attached. But at the end of the day, they have one similarity that differs only in context. They don't want to be alone. One achieves this by keeping the people he knows well close to him by staying put in one place; the other achieves this by going to new places and meeting strangers - new people every day. Both produce the same result. This is such a powerful song to me. We are all different in the ways we live our life but we all share the similar quality of yearning for company. They both see the beauty in living their lives the way they were meant to live them and can both appreciate the beauty in each other's choices, as well. But they also know that they could never divulge in the other's way of life - it's in the "blueprint of their soul", it's how they get what they want out of life. Masterpiece. |
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| Regina Spektor – Eet Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I agree that this song is about the inevitable change people must endure in life, and those moments you wish that everything was the way it was before. It sounds so simple, too - if you were the way you were, why can't you just channel that feeling and become that person again? It's because of your experiences in life, they change who you are and how you think. No matter how much you want to revert back, you have experienced these events that are now concrete in your thought processes. You can't unwitness or unfeel certain moments, and therefore cannot go back to being as blissfully naive to the world as you maybe once were. I think this is best demonstrated by the lyrics: "Someone's deciding whether or not to steal He opens the window just to feel the chill He hears that outside a small boy just starting to cry 'Cause it's his turn but his brother won't let him try" I think that the scene this person hears take place sparks an understanding within him. I think he, as a young boy, experienced something the same situation - a brother hogging one of his toys, something simple like that. And I think that that experience made him realize that if people won't let him have his turn, he would just take it without asking. He learned to steal to get what he wants. This man was the little boy in this scene. It's moments like those that change you. A young boy turned thief because that's how he learned to get what he wants. He figured out how to work his way around this problem of him not getting what he thinks he deserves. Now, he can't go back to being that innocent young boy after what he has figured out about life. |
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| Regina Spektor – Cinderella Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I think this song is sort of a cautionary tale describing the fallacies displayed in the media. Cinderella, the movie, is about this innocent girl who effortlessly falls in love and finds her happy ever after with her prince charming. I think that in this song, Regina tries to be realistic by pointing out that this is rarely a scenario that would occur. In real life, you don't marry a prince. Even if you do, you're prince charming might not turn out to be all that charming (as evidenced by the man in this song referring to her as a 'cunt' - beautiful selection of a word to really make a statement). Unwanted pregnancies, poverty - this is real life. I also think 'lullabies' also suggests the relevance to children - how these stories infiltrate the minds of children and warp their sense of what is realistic. "It never happened on the screen" - the story, Cinderella, never showed the realistic version of the fairy tale. Children see these movies and read these stories and believe that it is how life should turn out to be, and like this man, are surprised when real life slaps them in the face ("It was seen never happening by millions of people"). Realistically, if you were raised as Cinderella was, abused and locked in a cellar, chances are your life will not turn out the way hers does. This is just a dream, a wish, whereas in reality a person in this situation will "grow like weeds, cause it's damp and dark". The cards are just not in your favor, and sometimes there is nothing you can do to change that. "Sometimes you just gotta sell your soul" - I think this is how I classified this as a cautionary tale. This man is now spreading the lesson he has learned, that if you fall into the trap that is believing that life is like a fairy tale, you will pay the price with a rude awakening. I also think, at least at the end, she uses a play on words, and really means to say 'shoo' instead of 'shoe'. Like telling the story that is Cinderella to get lost. Kind of reminds me of the Grimm brothers stories, how Disney fluffed them up for children. At least this is how I always interpreted it! |
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