| Regina Spektor – Blue Lips Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I had more a feeling that the search for God and not the debunking of the religions was the intention of the song. Since they have started off beneath the knowledge tree (Genesis 3 in the Torah this book might be called something else - Regina is Jewish, she would know it), by eating the fruit that gave them a mixed understanding of good and evil (which actually is not pure knowledge, but a twisted kind of knowledge, a knowledge of the good and the evil things of life mixed together), they ended up very confused and depressed about the meaning of life. They do not find God at all, not in that tree not anywhere else in their failed attempt of making out meaning for life. Not in the work of their hands, not in the invented gods, not in the denial of the existence of God. Life has no meaning. And mankind is blue. What do you think about that? P.S.: Regina would not be defending Atheism because she is not, but I like the part that you say she might be somehow criticizing it. It feels to me that she is pointing out to where Atheism - and any religion/science that promised to lead people to "God" and has failed in its attempt - has lead people: depression. |
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| Regina Spektor – Blue Lips Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song, as in the whole CD (as she herself stated in an interview I lost track of) talks about religion, faith, the course of mankind and the sad condition people are living in, basically. At some point she states "they started off beneath the knowledge tree" (this is a reference to the history of Creation according to Genesis, chapters 1-6 , culminating with the flood and destruction of everything) and goes on developing how mankind lives in hopeless condition until today, up to the point of being able to look at the splendor of the Universe and do not find God, like the astronaut that looked at Earth from far away from the window of a rocket and saw it as a pale blue dot, and did not find God out there. To start from the knowledge tree is certain death and despair. This is something the Bible teaches: the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is death. This is where Regina is tracking from. How does she know that? Everyone knows of her Jewish background from that you can understand she would introduce her Bible knowledge in her songs. Now, that was the part that is purely interpretative according to context. All the other parts like the book quoted sometime here (I love that input by the way, because it totally fits with something intelligent Regina would have read ), the quote of the astronaut also very well looked at, seems legit - Regina has this amazing capacity of looking at different things and putting them together in a song full of powerful meaning. Now, this is NOT WHAT I THINK THE SONG MEANS in the sense that I cannot say Regina wrote this thinking on these meanings. But this is my understanding of where the interpretation of this song leads us to. And it totally depends on what I belief about what is truth. It doesn't make it more truth or less truth because I believe in it and someone else doesn't, and that is the beauty of something that is true: it is not less or more truth if we do believe it or not. It is like gravity. It is truth. Believe it or not. And each one will face the consequences of their beliefs. If one believes gravity is truth works alongside with it, life is good. But if one tries to defy it believing it is just a tale, pain and death awaits this poor deceived person. Ironies a part, let me go back to what I had in mind to share. Only the fruit of the tree of life leads to truth. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. (Still talking about the Bible here) This generation is taught that there is no truth. And that there is no meaning to things around us. This is the ultimate consequence of starting off beneath the knowledge tree, because when we seek knowledge out of a distorted source, a source that mix good and evil, we will end up finding out that nothing makes sense in life. Without God, the source of truth and life, we all end up sad and hopeless, killing ourselves and killing others. Trying to find justification for life in what we do, creating our own gods. We are blue, because we did not find God - perhaps for looking for Him in the wrong places? And to live a life without a source of meaning is like It is like making a law without a principle behind it. You tell people not to kill but you do not teach them life is precious and that God is the source of life and will demand the blood of that person from the hands who shed it. People are going to kill anyway, because they are filled with the knowledge of what is good and what is evil, and choose to do evil all the time. If Cain, having the knowledge of it all still killed his brother out of jealousy, how much more homicides will we see in this generation, among those who are loosing all the sense of what is right and wrong because they are not being taught the truth of God? Only when seek the knowledge and truth that comes from God is that we find meaning and life, and only then we will truly care for how precious ours and other people's lives are. |
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| Regina Spektor – Blue Lips Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Do you really believe that? How come something have no meaning at all? Look at how many long lines people write finding meaning to these lyrics? You are right about pulling inspiration from everywhere, but not having meaning at all? I think she either doesn't really think it through (which I doubt it deeply because Regina is a very very intelligent person) or she doesn't want to limit the possibilities of one person identifying with her songs by sharing her own meanings and stealing from others the experience of finding themselves a meaning to it. And if she said there is a meaning but she won't share, people would not leave her alone. So it is easier to lie and say there is no meaning, or to say half a truth (which is a lie) and say there is no meaning - implying that there is no meaning she wants to talk about . Because that would reveal her beliefs and process thoughts. And people would end up "labelling" her. Now that is much more a possibility. Yes, I am suggesting that she lies. I better think she is lying than she being plain stupid. Which is not Regina at all. So my point here is actually provoke you - in the best way possible - to think about this statement that is so common today "this has no meaning at all". It is a post-modern philosophy, but a very, very depressive one. Think of the consequences of it. What we do has no meaning, what we write has no meaning, what we choose has no meaning, and ultimately, our lives have no meaning at all. This is where this belief leads. See what I mean? No wonder everyone is blue... I would love to hear what you think about it. Thanks for your time. |
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| Regina Spektor – One More Time with Feeling Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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no, it is actually sad, because of these lines "You thought by now you'd be So much better than you are You thought by now they'd see That you had come so far And the pride inside their eyes Would synchronize into a love you've never know So much more than you've been shown" Regret written all over, painful realization at the most fragile moment of your life. Sad. |
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| Regina Spektor – One More Time with Feeling Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| wow... | |
| Regina Spektor – One More Time with Feeling Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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So beautiful and so painful. Thanks for posting. |
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| Regina Spektor – Man of a Thousand Faces Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Yeah, like you said yourself, your knowledge about Jesus is really not so extensive. He couldn´t have had his role for mankind IF he was a sinner. But no, Regina was surely not writting about Jesus in this one. |
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| Regina Spektor – Man of a Thousand Faces Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Very interesting view though! Well done! | |
| Regina Spektor – Man of a Thousand Faces Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Sorry to correct you zuchinno, but NO-ONE is unbiased. Unless you are God. (But how would you be sure of that as well?) ;) |
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| Regina Spektor – Man of a Thousand Faces Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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You and the guy who thinks Human of the Year is about a Pedophile have similar thoughts. Which I utterly disagree, but surely a fine imagination for writting criminal books. |
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| Regina Spektor – Man of a Thousand Faces Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Great comment! I do think there is a little more to it though, like everyone´s search for something greater, as they get tired of being people pleasers... trying to find out the real meaning of life and what it means to be understood (loved). This song is a song about loneliness and the search for something that validates existence. And that while that we are trying to do everything to be perfect, to fit in, to reach what we are all looking for. Regina answers it in a different way me and you believe would be the answer. I do agree with you that a personal relationship with God is the answer and that we cannot get to the Father by ourselves. But that is another whole comment! |
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| Regina Spektor – Man of a Thousand Faces Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Good one! | |
| Regina Spektor – Man of a Thousand Faces Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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What if someone interprets it completely different, like saying she means something completely bad and terrible, that she would have never thought of? Of course there are right and wrong interpretations, and there are good and bad interpretations, like for example, to say that Human of the year is a song about a Pedophile (???). So, there are different interpretations, and mainly there is a lot of bias - our own worldview and experiences. And among those, some are pretty close, some are pretty far, and some are just totally out of space, and thus completely wrong. Man, what is it with people that nowadays we are so afraid to say "this is good" and "this is bad" or "this is right" or "this is wrong"? If we go on with that, how are we suppose to have sense of justice and life quality? I disagree britches, there must be right and wrong, even if there is a whole choice of possible interpretations. Repeating myself: some are good, some are bad, some are right and some are wrong. |
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| Regina Spektor – Man of a Thousand Faces Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Superb! Thank you! | |
| Regina Spektor – Wallet Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Maybe not what Regina meant but a very very good application for that song! Thanks for the input! | |
| Regina Spektor – Two Birds Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Don´t waste your time anymore, don´t you see he gives you not the proper value? You don´t need him... get out before you create roots into this girl! | |
| Regina Spektor – Human of the Year Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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??? I wonder what would be Regina´s reaction at this interpretation. Why in the world would she sing about a Paedophile being praised? And many other times in her album? Thad, pardon me, is really sick. |
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| Regina Spektor – Human of the Year Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Let me contribute to somethings that might be helpful. Projector is intentionally chosen by what the world means: a projection is something that imitates what is real. It is not the real thing. Just a projection. Insky is a very common ending to Russian names. It has nothing to do with Jews, unless they were living in Russia - like Regina, get it? I think your interpretation is really fitting to your personal experience and has nothing to do with what Regina might have had in her mind - even because she knows nothing much about Christian experience, since she isn´t one. But as herself refuses to give the real meaning to us, we can all try and figure it out ourselves right? |
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| Regina Spektor – Human of the Year Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Your interpretation really sound right on, but I do think that it is sarcastic in the sense that men despise religion until the moment they are the center of it. It is like "no, no worshiping God, let us worship us, look how great we are!" Hallelujah. Atheism is a religion too, because the idea of reconnection is there, the belief is there, the meaning for life, source of truth, highest value, and how to acquire knowledge are all there but the answer isn´t God, is man. And that is where I think the sarcasm is: if we are all human (and sinners) what is there to be praised? |
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| Regina Spektor – Human of the Year Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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No, Regina is not criticizing the fact that christians call each other brothers. Communists did that too, did you know that? It is clearly the picture of worshiping men that is depicted and satirized in this song. Karl with K (which remits me to the Marx and the Weber). That is what humanism made (in Russia it even lead to the total abolition of religion): put man in the center. Hallelujah. It is what we have everyday on TV nowadays. And even the saints in the churches are also a symbol for humans being just humans and should not be the object of praises. We are all brothers=sinners in that sense. Human of the year, what a joke. That is what I understand this song to be. |
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| Regina Spektor – Human of the Year Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Nop, this one is not about criticizing religion, but about criticizing men who says that instead of God they should be worshiped. Because they are better than God. They are God. Tja. In the end, they are all humans and sinners - all brothers of the same blood. It is not about criticizing religion, but criticizing the idea of taking God out of the picture and putting men. Just to mention one little example "Idols". That should say everything to you. |
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| Regina Spektor – Man of a Thousand Faces Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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wow, very interesting! |
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| Regina Spektor – One More Time with Feeling Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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To remain alive m3nd3s, no one wants to die (which is the case of the character in the song). Though he found out to not be loved as he expected he would in such a moment, he still tries to find reasons to not allow death to overcome him. That is what |
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| Regina Spektor – Wallet Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Yay, what a depth! Thank you for the input! | |
| Regina Spektor – Two Birds Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Agreed in gender number and degree with Cody and all the others who commented about how generically meaning is this song. It is about the difference between people who dare and people who dare not to go out of a comfortable position for maaany reasons. And of how they try to keep everyone around to reinforce that safety feeling. And of how depressing (or because of depression) is to ultimately live like that. |
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| Regina Spektor – Human of the Year Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Which means a lot. Karl Marx and Karl Weber, the guys who figured out how to put men in the center. Hallelujahs and praises for mankind. Not a new idea though... we are all looking for this kind of appreciation and for being recognized as someone special (sights). But to be the Idol of the year will never bring it to us. All we need is real love of people who really know us - and not the whole mankind that is our "brothers". It is a critique to how men uses the same things they used to hate in worshiping God to worship himself. Ha. |
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| Regina Spektor – Eet Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I am so sorry for that. It is a very painful situation indeed. Do not stay alone. Seek for wise and loving people to help you get through. And seek God... God can heal the most broken heart. I know, cause He healed mine. I say a little pray for you. |
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| Regina Spektor – Eet Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Ha, good shot. Not too far from the target, specially when the idea of loosing something for her is so strongly attached to the piano, and how she used everything else as a piano (like a typing machine on the clip). Maybe it is an unconscious choice for here... who knows? Interesting adding! |
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| Regina Spektor – Eet Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Wow, what a revelation! |
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| Regina Spektor – Eet Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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That is actually the tone throughout the whole album "disconnection". And it is not by chance that Religion is a big on this one, not accidentally called "Far". Religion comes from Religare, in latin, which means to reconnect... What is Regina trying to say as the reason why we feel disconnected? I think that the answer is relationships. With God, others and self. Not really nailed down to a certain philosophy or movement or religion, but the bigger thing we all know we are meant to live but we haven´t reached it yet. And all we feel something is missing, but didn´t find our yet what is it. |
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| Regina Spektor – Eet Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Like someone else above illustrated it perfectly: stealing and bulling your little brother are fruits from the same tree: selfishness and the conflict between what is good and right and power. Hope it helped. |
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| Regina Spektor – Eet Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Have you never been in a situation when you need to make a decision forced by circumstances and it goes against your deepest inner (and even unconscious till then) values? The the guy see the picture of his own conflict outside - I´ve already said it so I am just going to quote the person who inspired me to this insight: " the third verse - feeling a bit desperate in your circumstances, considering going against your values, and then getting a reality check or something that puts it in perspective (the selfish brother is a lesser version of the man considering stealing). either that, or it's just talking about human selfishness. i like to think the former :)" Thank you lemon147 |
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| Regina Spektor – Eet Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Well, people change don´t they? We normally hate those changes cause we want security anyway. What a puzzled world! |
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| Regina Spektor – Laughing With Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Ps: I am assuming you are a woman for the content and way of thinking, but please forgive me if I made a mistake. I assume you are prone to accept we all make mistakes, like you probably do when assuming so many wrong things about people like on your commentary above. We do make a lot of bad judgment and wrong assumptions. Thank God we are both Christians and understand the need of humbleness and forgiveness right? Ps2: cattielove is obviously not an atheist. If she was, she´d never write God with capital letters. Only people who believe He is a person with a proper name do that. And her argument quoted and misunderstood by you is not defending anything you might think is wrong. It is just putting things from the perspective of these people - like yourself pointed out: very hurt people. And what do we offer for people who are hurting? Compassion. No more stones, thank you. The only angry person in the commentaries here I´ve seen so far was you (and I´ve surely read more than 200). Not any atheist. Please, think about it and reconsider your own prejudices in the topics you commented on. Your point of view and conclusions do not exhale the love and wisdom Jesus showed to sinner when he was on Earth. Not at all. But we all make mistakes, don´t we? Hope God laughs at that sometimes. We should... |
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| Regina Spektor – Laughing With Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"TurnMeOn"... you a Christian judging homosexuals and using a user name totally connected with sex? Unless you are married and meant it to be for your husband, just the fact that you think about it with a man who is not your husband makes you an adulterous and a sinner according to the same Bible that condemns homosexuals. Nothing personal, I am just pointing this out to make a point of what I really meant to write here: I think you misunderstood cattieloves´ comment and was a little to harsh on her. What I like about this site is how respectful people tend to be with each other even if they totally disagree in point of views. If you are really a Christian, please keep the standard high and be respectful. No personal attacking here towards someone´s commentary ok? That is a very bad picture of a Christian... no atheists had that attitude here so far. Hope you get it nicely. |
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| Regina Spektor – Laughing With Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Mean, that question is really tricky. Could you please share about what you had in mind? I mean tricky because I can´t think of any reasons would make God laugh that are actually implied in the song. Do you mean what would He laugh at generally? I do agree with you the God I am thinking about wouldn´t laugh at any of the things mentioned in the song (besides the good God themed joke - what it it is indeed a good one?) I am really curious to follow your line of thoughts. Thanks! |
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| Regina Spektor – Laughing With Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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@ dancerrrbabeee I am not an atheist, but I really feel a call to defend them here in this topic, since they are mentioned so many times. There is a lot of things I don´t understand about this song, but one I am sure of (as someone pointed out right in the beginning to these posts). At first I wondered at who the "crazy" were: atheists? But then it came to me. No, the crazy are definitely those freak people who call themselves children of God and keep yelling at the top of their lungs to the "sinners" that God hates them. I think THEY hate everyone else, including God. Like someone already said plain and clear. Atheists, by definition, do not believe God even exist. Then they cannot attribute Him characteristics of a person, that would be contradictory. Besides that, have you ever seen an atheist claiming that God hates people? I haven´t. And that´s because they don´t do that. Only religious fanatics do. I´ve seen a pair of them, thank God, only on TV. I´d probably loose my love and compassion in the presence of one of those. God have mercy on me! So let´s make it clear and not accuse them without distinguishing well what it means to be an atheist. I´d personally rather share a ceiling with an atheist than with a religious fanatic. They are much more loving and respectful people than those on the second group. It gives me the chills to think of someone walking around full of hate (and blaming God to be the source of it) and still say they believe in Him and are His children. Creepy. Sadist. Masochist. Mental Clinics case for sure. And to add to that... Think of the picture: I tell everyone "My father haaaaaates you". What kind of picture am I painting to others about my father? That he is a monster. Then I am not doing my father a favor. These people are not doing God´s cause a favor. The Bible say everywhere He is love and He loves people. He hates when we do evil things to each other - like any parent would hate to see their kids beating each other up - but he loves people in spite of that - like parents keep loving their kids, though they are angry at their behavior. If these kids repent and say they are sorry, the parents anger is eased. Same with God. But He keeps loving. Simple like that. Whoever doesn´t get it, it is crazy. But if you don´t believe that there is actually a God, than you are just an atheist. Did you get the difference? |
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| Regina Spektor – Laughing With Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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But we laugh *with* God — we laugh at the ridiculous ideas people have about Him. Interesting connection. |
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| Regina Spektor – Laughing With Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Sorry Kopra, but it is much more dramatic than that. Think of you as a victim of a rape-murder in the seconds before dying, or a war prisoner captured by the enemy soldiers in the execution moment, or a criminal condemned death in his last minutes of life being watched by the parents of his victim(s), or a child being beaten up to death by a drunk or drug addicted parent. So then and there, death is coming to you, and there is no one around you to lovingly tell you goodbye, or the people you love are not there to hear from you you love them (which remits to the same theme she talks about in the song "one more time with feeling") Man, you better have someone like God at your side to help you in a moment like that. That is it, what I think it really means |
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| Regina Spektor – Laughing With Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think this is the best interpretation of the meaning of this song so far! This and adding the thoughts I believe to be the explanation of two different meanings for the first part : 1) Someone else already said that: if God is considered to be the cause of the troubles, you have no reason to laugh at Him, cause this is not funny at all. It is pretty painful. Then He is just a sarcastic being, and we are dammed. 2) Those who will not resent at God will take Him seriously and look for "His help in time of need" The chorus is DEFINITELY about people who believe in God but actually picture Him in a very tragicomic way - and who in a sane mind would wanna believe in such a hateful and pathetic god anyway? And if Regina is as smart as I am thinking she is, she meant it all both ways. Dualistic, ambivalent, tricky and ironic. Don´t you think? Too bad it is missing another point of view on God, but it comforts me that the song isn´t about God. It is about religion and how humans didn´t find yet a wise way to go about this topic, it is mostly contradictory, hateful, pathetic and shallow. To close it, I agree with both views that say that the "we are all laughing with God" is 1) the childish excuse "we are not laughing at You God" 2) the irony of being part of the whole religion joke ourselves. Oh, if we could all know if there is a real God indeed and who is He after all... |
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| Enter the Worship Circle – I Will Not Forget You Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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It is a song about idolatry, about giving your heart to something else rather than God. It is about having ears that don´t hear and eyes that don´t see that the only one worthy of worship and praises is God. It is a song of someone who read through the Old Testament and realized how many times the people of Israel went away from God times and times again to follow other gods rather than YHWVH, and sacrificed - even their little kids - to them, while he (the composer) would follow only God. Like David. |
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