| The Hoosiers – Money To Be Made Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I thought it was about prostitution.... I mean, there are not a lot of jobs where you have to "put up your barricades".. Everytime I hear this song I just imagine the meaning of the song to be something like this: "Put up your barricades, there`s money to be made" To me, this line might be about prostitution and how someone has to really "put up a barricade" in order to deal with this job "What you�re asking for means the world to me You draw close as you whisper: �precisely� " Not so sure about this line.... maybe he has to keep a secret or something...? "means the world to me" is mostly used in a very positive way, like a wedding proposal or if someone donates a kidney to you or something^^, but I just can't figure out how to interpret this positivly "Your safety assured behind those egg-shell walls of yours" Egg-shell walls are not very sturdy, they break easily... so I think this line is meant as a critisicm... the person in question is not safe at all and might act rather stupidly/naiv because she thinks herself to be safe "Friends and family glide by on wings of faith" I thought this was about religion... ("faith").. maybe the person in question comes from a religious environment? "Glide on" might mean they don't see what is going on and are blindly "gliding on" "Faithlessly I don�t recognise a face Not a single face" Maybe the "speaker" knows something (someone he knows getting in to prostitution to make money???) and does not understand the world anymore and thus doesn't "recognise a face".. or perhaps he is so dissapointed or surprised by the actions of the person in question, that he doesn't recognise her "inner" face anymore ? "Take this sorry soul I�ve made enough of a mess on my own On my own" He doesn't want to be bothered anymore but still is? lol i don't know :-) Tell me what you think about my point of view! |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Holland, 1945 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I thought this song was partly about a WW2 restistance group named "Weiße Rose" (white rose" because of the reference to white roses in the last lines... but most of your explainations make more sense, i guess | |
| Regina Spektor – Somedays Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think the lines "I'm in love with your daughter I want to have her baby I'm in love with your daughter So can I please " are about someone asking the person in the songs father to marry her. And the lines "I'm not here, not anymore I've gone away don't call me don't write" are maybe about that maybe they married but it went wrong and now he/she left? Or maybe the father said no? |
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| Regina Spektor – Pound of Flesh Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think the pound of flesh refers to the Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice, where the jew Shylock wants a pound of flesh from Antonio, if he doesn't pay back the money he lent from him in time. | |
| Regina Spektor – Aquarius Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I love this song. I think all the references about the water are about the zodiac sign aquarius (like the title). "In a month that's cold as ice" and other lines similar to that are about the months january/february, which are very cold in most countries and thus it is not possible to carry the water because its frozen, so she questions the meaning of this or even the meaning of life? I don't know what the person in the shadows is all about, possibly someone she is imagining because she is alone? But i think the line " I only ask for help in riddles" is about the fact that the person in the song wants/needs help but can't express it like that, so she uses signs/riddles (like the people who want to commit suicide but kind of have the hope of beeing saved and express that in many signs). I also think this because many lines in the song refer to thoughts about beeing a failure or just beeing sad/depressed ("You've seen me lose all the water from my hands I'm not a skillful water carrier But the raindrops keep falling on my head, falling on my head"). I think the lines about carrying love are maybe about a love she once had, or she has (maybe the shadow person???) I could be totaly wrong about everything, maybe one of you can help? |
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| Regina Spektor – Loveology Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i love the lines : Love-ology, love-ology, I'm sorry-ology, forgive me-ology, love-ology, love-ology. I'm sorry-ology, forgive me-ology, love-ology, Love-ology. They are sung so beautifully |
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| Regina Spektor – Prisoners Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| i think the lines : " my mama thinks i'm grown but i'm really just little" are about feeling lost in this huge world and beeing lonely, in the need of the protection of a mother. | |
| Regina Spektor – Genius Next Door Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| this song makes me think of pollution, about how we are destroying the world and ourselves. Thats probably not the meaning of it, but it could be? | |
| Regina Spektor – Oedipus Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I love this song! I think its so sad but also hopeful and strong! I especially love the lines: "Sometimes I stand by the royal gate People screaming love and hate And they scream And they scream And they scream And they scream Long live the king, long live the queen" |
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| Regina Spektor – Chemo Limo Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think the lines about barbara looking so much like her mom are about her missing her mother, or thinking of her mother who might also have had cancer and it expresses a big love for her kids, a love that she experiences even more now that she knows that she might die soon?! The song lines : "When they came out they said You'll be okay, anyway And I smiled cause I'd known it all along. " are maybe about her still having hope of surviving, even without the chemo therapy. |
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| Regina Spektor – Folding Chair Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think the line : "I've got a perfect body, but sometimes I forget, I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat," means that she thinks she has a perfect body, because its functional and not because its perfectly slim or esthatically beautiful. I think that "but sometimes I forget" is all about the insecurity of woman about their body. |
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