| Regina Spektor – Eet Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I've been confused about what it means for awhile. But I was listening to it a few nights ago and things in my life seemed to hit me at once, and I feel like the song is about some of the same things. "It's like forgetting the words to your favorite song. You can't believe it; you were always singing along. It was so easy and the words so sweet. You can't remember; you try to feel the beat." -Your favorite song is usually a song that sticks with you for awhile, not just a fews days, but for me, a long time. And it's almost as though that song is you. When you forget the words to your favorite song, I think she's saying it's like forgetting who you are, or who you were. The next verse "You spend half of your life trying to fall behind. You're using your headphones to drown out your mind. It was so easy and the words so sweet. You can't remember; you try to move your feet." -I think it's talking about some of those points in your life, the times when you're really starting to change and you either know it and are trying to block it out because you want to remain the same (but you can't and that's why she says you still can't remember, because change is inevitable) or you don't realize it because you're just forgetting who you were and you're just too busy in your own life to really live it and keep track of yourself, what you want, your dreams, etc. "Someone's deciding whether or not to steal. He opens a window just to feel the chill. He hears that outside a small boy just started to cry 'Cause it's his turn, but his brother won't let him try." -And this part I feel is the biggie. When you've either been avoiding changes for so long until that moment when there's a decision you HAVE to make and all of a sudden you can't avoid it any longer, or when you have been so busy and living in a fog for so long and then there's something about to happen or again, a choice you have to make, that brings you back to reality. You turn to something simple, like opening a window (maybe symbolizing that source of fresh air, like friend's help or someone who can jar you back) and you hear something that makes you remember who you were. The old you that you were trying to cling to, or the person you've forgotten and just gotten too far away from. A situation of two little boys, something so everyday, but something that reminds you of a childhood memory or you and your sister or brother, and it's that moment of realization, the epiphany, when you come to terms with who you are now, or that you need to start living in the moment, or that you know you've been going the wrong way without knowing it and you need to make changes. "It's like forgetting the words to your favorite song. You can't believe it; you were always singing along. It was so easy and the words so sweet. You can't remember; you try to move your feet. It was so easy and the words so sweet. You can't remember; you try to feel the beat..." -Life. It used to be so easy. Being you. It used to be so easy. Knowing your way in the world and who your friends were and what you wanted. So easy. Then life goes on, things change, you change, and you realize you can't remember how things used to be, the faces of loved ones who've passed, the voices of old friends who've moved away, and you try to remember, to get back to the previous feelings of happiness or stability or love. But it's never that easy, and you can't go back. That's what I think eet is. That feeling of wanting to change and to stay stuck, the feeling of wanting to go back in time but at the same time wanting not to. Feeling the need for something, to help yourself or do something or to just feel alive, but not knowing how to do it... because you've forgotten the words to your favorite song. |
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| Regina Spektor – Eet Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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love is free- I truly believe that if someone records a song that they love, put a piece of themselves in the song, then it's beautiful. Music is an extension of people and unfortunately, some people let others control their direction in life and so, by extension, their music. But I completely disagree with all those who say Regina is trying to make her music more mainstream, or trying to cater towards certain people, a certain fan base, etc. Someone who has created songs with such intelligence yet such depths of human emotion, as she has since her first album is not someone who would ever let others steer her or her music. So I don't understand how you can say you miss Regina. All artists grow and change if they are any good, if they are really making the music to make music as they want and not just to make money. You can't possibly say the more obvious lyrics and the more mainstream beats make it shit. Neil Young for example. Every one of his albums was different. He lost fans because with one album he would become "more mainstream" and was called out for trying to be more listenable for the masses and with another he would be so out there that people thought he was losing his mind. The thing is, he did what he wanted whenever he wanted to. Not for others, for himself. You say you miss the old Regina. Because her older music wasn't mainstream, not fit into any particular mold. If you don't like her because her music is different now, then I'm going to call you out on putting her in a mold, the mold of always creating music like that of 11:11 and Songs. She's living life, growing, changing. Her music is too. This is obviously what she wants to record at this point in her life, you can't possibly judge her for that. |
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| The Good Luck Joes – Much Too Young Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The lyrics are Remembering when we stood alone in southern springtime predawn, and you said, "it's all we got, we're all we got, we're all we got". |
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| The Good Luck Joes – Frozen Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I'm pretty sure it's "dastardly display" not destinedly. | |
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