Paris

Perhaps it's about a woman who wanted to travel the world and then settle in Paris, but because of her commitment to this man, she had to defer her fulfillment to her next life.

There are two obvious things to take into consideration. She cites two authors: Virginia Woolf and Margaret Atwood. Both were feminist writers. I have no idea about Atwood, but despite marrying a Jew Woolf was criticised as being anti-semitic (bearing in mind Regina's Jewish descent).

There is a possible hint of the obvious, that she is singing about a woman with feminist ideals who would rather not break free as she cares too deeply for the man she's with. This could be reflected in the line "He told me that he couldn’t live without me And I told him the same thing too And though we knew it wasn’t true We both knew it wasn’t a lie" Perhaps she is implying that they love each other too much to be apart, but there is a chauvinist attitude that she is dependent on a man (the lie).

There are also certain religious connotations I could read into her talk of the afterlife. There are complaints amongst certain Jewish sects of being rather restricting of their women, and perhaps she is alluding to wanting to stick with her traditions and religion despite Woolf's writings of the oppression women suffer. She is tempted by feminism, but again, Woolf and Atwood can't stop her from remaining religious - she'll be rewarded or "comforted" in the next life.

Wolfe (i'm not sure about Atwood) hung out in Paris in an artists' commune sort of thing and I think this woman wanted to go there. She made it to Paris but when he man came to take her back it didn't matter what the writers had told her about feminism, she WANTED to be a house wife. She wanted a little adventure, but that would have to wait for her next life, because in this life she had already chosen her position.

To me it speaks about a woman, with some feminist thoughts, perhaps, that wanted to 'settle down'. Until a man came and changed everything, and even though it went against her values, 'Margaret atwood, she could not stop me Virginia Woolf, she could not stop me' she still wanted to go along.

'Sweet, sweet forever I'll comfort myself in my next life'

Maybe in her next life, she'll fulfill her feminist views. Meanwhile, she'll enjoy the ride. :)

this song is great, gotta love regina

this song is awesome & makes me want to sing :)

I think this is about a woman who is a feminist, but her husband expects her to fill a more traditional role and she obliges because she loves him and he's all she knows.

I find the imagery in this song to be really, really romantic.

i think that when she says 'he's all i know' she means that she doesn't know anything else and she wants to have an adventure.

this song is simply beautiful, i love when she says 'and though we knew it wasn’t true we both knew it wasn’t a lie...

My interp:

This song is ambiguous. There are hints that it is about a woman giving her loving, joyous submission to her love, despite her feminist ideals, and there are hints that it's about a woman deluding herself that she loves a man and would do anything for him, and not realizing what she's really giving up. Each person can decide their own interpretation. I certainly hope it's the first one.