| Sara Bareilles – Send Me the Moon Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| you're response is poetic. i agree, it is truly pure beauty. | |
| Sara Bareilles – Bittersweet Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| i love the way you said that. (: | |
| Regina Spektor – Hero Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"He never ever saw it coming at all.../It's all right.../No one's got it all" It means to me that the hero (which is just your everyday person) failed--he never saw this evil particularly attacking him. But Regina, or the outsider looking in, says no one has it all perfect, all figured out. We are all fallible to temptations and evils. "Power to the people/We don't want it/We want pleasure/And the TVs try to rape us/And I guess that they're succeeding/Now we're going to these meetings/But we're not doing any meeting/And we're trying to be faithful/But we're cheating, cheating, cheating. " These are merely examples of evils. TV's and gossip, the loss of community in our world, the loss of faith. "Now open wide, here comes original sin." It's all being 'forcefed' to us, with no way to escape it. Saying "It's all right." So many times over: it seems like she's trying to convince herself that it's all ok/the norm/the status quo. "I'm the hero of the story/Don't need to be saved" very independent view of things. It sounds less like she doesn't want to be saved, but more it will look like she's lost if she is saved from all these evils that she never thought would affect her. sad, but beautiful... |
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| Regina Spektor – One More Time with Feeling Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I like the way you interpret the song. With the balloon being a boundary they need to break free of. I like it. | |
| Regina Spektor – One More Time with Feeling Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| It sounds like it's about a cancer patient. This person that is trying to find hope when everyone looks at them pitifully like they can't have hope because it's the end. I think this could be symbolism how people will always doubt you and try to bring you down, but you cant let them. this person is trying to convince himself that he is right, he is trying to stay true to himself and his hopes. This builds character: Romans 5:3-5, "Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us..." This hope builds others up as they begin to reflect hope to others. I feel like this song is about how other humans can effect our outlook on life for good or for worse. And we should all try to affect others for the better even if what were going through is hard. | |
| Regina Spektor – Dance Anthem of the 80's Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"I'm walking through the city Like a drunk, but not With my slip showing a little Like a drunk, but not And I am one of your people But the cars don't stop And I am one of your people But the cars don't stop" Maybe a prostitute. She sounds like an outcast because she says she is one of your people. That this is wear she belongs but still no one stops to take care of her or even acknowledge her. "And it's been a long time since before I've been touched Now I'm getting touched all the time And it's only a matter of who And it's only a matter of when" Before becoming a prostitute she was in love and was touched in such a special way not just on the surface of her skin but deeply into her heart. so shes turned to prostitution seeking for that same touch but will never have it because her clients only wish to touch her surface (to touch her physically) when she yearns to be deeply touched and have an emotional connection such as the one she had lost. "An addiction to hands and feet There's a meat market down the street The boys and girls watch each other eat When they really just wanna watch each other sleep There's a meat market down the street The boys and girls watch each other eat When they really just wanna watch each other...sleep" She has a undying skin hunger which is referenced by the meat market or rather her clientel. Mentioning boys and girls brings the reader back to childhood innocence and the different interactions between boys and girls and the whore and her clients. |
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| Regina Spektor – Eet Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"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..." Your favorite song symbolizes the beat your life follows. Forgetting the words is forgetting what is important to you, what you value, what seems to happen in our culture much too often. When you are younger it is easier to stay true to yourself because you don't have society's status quo stamped in the front of your brain which is what "It was so easy and the words so sweet" mean to me. But "you can't rememer, you try to feel the beat" says that childhood innocence is too far away and you mind has conformed. "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 begin to slack off because you're starting to forget your goals and your purpose. Headphones symbolize blocking innocence out and having the status quo/negative media blasted into your mind, brainwashing you of any shreds of innocence you had left. "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." You are thinking about your past morals and current morals and openning the window symbolizes natures purity/simplicity, because is not contaminated with politics or human complexities its just an ongoing, natur-al cycle. When you open the window you hear the "small boy started to cry because it's his turn but his brother won't let him try." This goes back to childhood innocence and how adulthood tries to steal that away turning to curruption. |
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| Regina Spektor – Blue Lips Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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He took a step, but then felt tired. He said, "I'll rest a little while." But when he tried to walk again, He wasn't a child. And all the people hurried fast, Real fast, And no one ever smiled. This stanza reminds me of growing up. A little boy is walking (living his life) and rests (is asleep to reality of the world), but when he wakes up (to the real world) he realizes that he has grown up and no one stops to think about anything. No one pauses their hurried lives to stop and enjoy/savour life. |
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