This has to be one of my favorite Regina Spektor songs. In fact my username comes from it. (:
Anyways, here's my take on the song:
The song starts out by saying the woman in the song is an alcoholic. She's always getting drunk at the parties, and her husband is committed to taking care of her. He shows this by:
1) He was a husband who drove his wife home drunk from the parties
2) In the car he would lean her head gently against the side door window
3) And in the bathroom he would hold her hair back and hope
4) He'd take one look at her a say "Oh, oh it's okay"
5) And throughout the song he would "give her time"
I think that the woman felt guilty for her problem, because of this verse:
"And her conscience would issue yet another last warning"
Meaning her conscience reminded her constantly of what she was doing to her husband. She'd try to make it up to him by cleaning the house:
"And by the time he came back she'd scrub the bathrooms and make them smell like pine
It would be almost as if nothing had happened
And he'd give her time"
I think that buildings may symbolize many things. It could be:
1) Something they talked about to keep their thoughts off of their real problems
2) A quote the husband said to wife comforting her that progress can be made and things can change
I think there are two possibilities for the final stanza:
1) She's hungover, and starting to remember what happened.
And in the morning she'd wake up and crouch recollections all day
2) She ends up ironically jumping off of a building, and on her day is thinking about everything that had let up to that moment.
This has to be one of my favorite Regina Spektor songs. In fact my username comes from it. (:
Anyways, here's my take on the song:
The song starts out by saying the woman in the song is an alcoholic. She's always getting drunk at the parties, and her husband is committed to taking care of her. He shows this by:
1) He was a husband who drove his wife home drunk from the parties 2) In the car he would lean her head gently against the side door window 3) And in the bathroom he would hold her hair back and hope 4) He'd take one look at her a say "Oh, oh it's okay" 5) And throughout the song he would "give her time"
I think that the woman felt guilty for her problem, because of this verse:
"And her conscience would issue yet another last warning"
Meaning her conscience reminded her constantly of what she was doing to her husband. She'd try to make it up to him by cleaning the house:
"And by the time he came back she'd scrub the bathrooms and make them smell like pine It would be almost as if nothing had happened And he'd give her time"
I think that buildings may symbolize many things. It could be:
1) Something they talked about to keep their thoughts off of their real problems 2) A quote the husband said to wife comforting her that progress can be made and things can change
I think there are two possibilities for the final stanza:
1) She's hungover, and starting to remember what happened. And in the morning she'd wake up and crouch recollections all day
2) She ends up ironically jumping off of a building, and on her day is thinking about everything that had let up to that moment.