| Bad Books – You're A Mirror I Cannot Avoid Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I interpret this song a very personal way. I know that my interpretation is not what the song really is about, but this is what it means to me; "You're a mirror I cannot avoid strung out and jittery and paranoid a leeky battery that can't keep charged" This line of the song is my exact feelings toward trying to tell my mom I was sexually abused as a child. I try to ignore it, but it just keeps reflecting back to me like a mirror. I cannot avoid it and I am so paranoid about everything because of it. It is like the real me cannot keep her charge because this victim me is still keeping her silence. A couple of the other lines also relate to this feeling as well. Again, this is just what the lines mean to me. I know they that this isn't really what the song is about. |
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| Soley – Blue Leaves Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think this song is about date rape. "I sailed in the forest with you The water was covered with blue Leaves from the party we left We put all our drinks in the bag And put it on the table We ate them" In this first part, she talks about leaving a party with someone and she says they are drinking togethor. I think the way she says "I sailed in the forest with you" suggests that she doesn't really know this person, that they are a stranger. And I think that the fact that she says she sailed into a forest (usually forests are far removed from the water, right?) and that the water was blue suggests that the place is strange to her as well because the idea of a forest in the middle of water is strange. "After the night I woke up My head was still on the Table and my eye sailed away in the boat we came on" Here she talks about waking up in this same strange place and she looks around, but all she can remember is leaving the party with this stranger "We jumped into the water We ate it We got my eye from the ocean And we put it on:" Now I think she is trying to remember the events of the previous evening. I think you can interpret her saying, "we jumped into the water" to mean that they drank a lot because she follows it with, "we ate it". That is my idea, anyway. "I sailed from the forest with you The leaves in the boat were yellow, green and blue And we threw them in the air, it was rain Leaving the sky only for us We put them on the table We ate them " Finally, she starts from the beginning like she is going over the details of what she knows happened while this stranger takes her home (at least I think the stranger is taking her home because it says "I sailed FROM the forest..."). In the end, though, she comes to the same conclusion as she did when she first woke up...she cannot remember anything after they left the party, arrived at this place, and started drinking. Then the music continues but she trails off, suggesting that she knows there is more to the story, but her memory is blank. That is my interpretation of both the content and the form. |
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| Regina Spektor – Pavlov's Daughter Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| You have to remember though that songs, poems, and stories are not necessarily from the point of view of the writer but from the point of view of the speaker of the song, poem, and story. Maybe Regina's speaker for this song is not Jewish, and maybe she wrote this song about other people's beliefs. Just something to consider :) | |
| Regina Spektor – Pavlov's Daughter Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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My interpretation: I think this is about human nature. We, as humans, are born into sin. This is what Christianity has taught me. At the beginning when she is talking about the grave digger and getting slimmer, I think she means that as we get older if we continue to live in sin, our odds of making it to Heaven when we die get slimmer and slimmer. We are sort of damned from the begginning if we do not accept Jesus Christ as our personal saviour. This is why the song starts this way. Then she goes on to talk about how if she hears about angels calling her name to be good and repint one more time, she will just get drunk to ignore them. Then she talks from the POV of the devil, Lucifer/Lucille, and she talks about all different forms of sin. When she talks about Pavlov's daughter (and of course we know that Pavlov invented the idea of classical conditioning), she is talking about how we are programed, conditioned if you will, to be sinners and how hard it is to break the cycle of sinning until you accept Jesus. I think the ending where she is basically talking, she is saying that she (or the speaker, rather) chose to end their life and dies, and she hears rain, but it isn't real rain, it is the fire of hell raining down on her because she never chose to accept The Light. Again, this is just my interpretation and how I see it. Feel free to come up with your own :) |
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