Making Records

To add to my poor, lonely comment, I always laugh when she says that the wires sing it back better than she can because I infinitely prefer her live performances. I'm not sure what it is, but there are songs that I don't listen to if it's not the live version. So, basically, I find that line ironic.

I love the piano in this song. Anyway, I think the meaning is pretty obvious, but she does it so beautifully. The part about jelly and jam is fantastic. I mean, she takes something simple, like the effect of making a record on an artist, but makes it something wonderful with little details and the absolutely perfect words for expressing it.

This song, to me, sounds so incurably lonely. I wonder why she decided to say "heart" in Spanish though.

I agree, she sounds lonely. I'm always surprised by how deep Regina's songs can get. She's not afraid to hit the hard words, the hard subjects. I know what alcoholics are like, and the 'why don't I just pee in the middle of this kitchen' hit me hard because I've seen it before. It's not pretty, it's not nice. But she gets the idea of a person who is longing for something better.

Perhaps she said corazon because it sounds a little like 'chorus'-on?

It explains why she doesn't record most of her songs, at least why she doesn't record her deeper songs, because they're her passion and she doesn't want people covering them, or parodying them, or manipulating them in anyway.

One thing is pretty clear from this song: Regina Spektor wishes she had a band. I also think the reason is pretty clear: people love her for her music, but once the music is recorded, they can listen to it whenever they want and it doesn't matter to them what happens to her. She wants a band because she wants people who care about her for reasons other than her music.

This song is amazing, but I kind-of wish I didn't hear it. Now I feel guilty whenever I download Regina Spektor's songs, because it seems like (from this song, at least) she doesn't like recording her songs; I feel like I'm stealing a part of her, kind-of. But I could just be misinterpreting her song.

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...

I think this song is beautiful and sad. I think that she's kind of getting lost in music, like when she says everything could be a cd cover. And she's acknowledging that people think she's cute but eccentric.

anyways know what "Corazón" means?

i am so glad i found this song. i think it is one of her best