Another Town Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Ragggamuffin 

Cover art for Another Town lyrics by Regina Spektor

My personal interpretation sort of goes along with just_old_light's.

Regina, or perhaps she's speaking for/from another person, looks at all the possibilities of the outcome of her life if she hadn't been born in this life, or hadn't chosen the paths she did, or if anything in her current life had gone the other direction in the past. But then she looks at her life now and is not only telling possibly herself "i love you" but all the other people shes encountered and met in this life shes living. These people could be her friends, family, lover(s), etc. The "i love you"s could also go to all the people she could have met, or would have met if things were different.

But then Regina, or the person she's speaking for, may be saying she wants to be elsewhere, "in another town" doing something else, being somewhere else, having other opportunities, etc. The "i love you"s in this case could go out to the people she has in this town, and how she loves them so much, and cares too much for them to leave to that "other town".

My Opinion