Lyrics for Samson as interpreted by anna118k

Samson Lyrics
You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first, I loved you first
Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth
I have to go, I have to go
Your hair was long when we first met

Samson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
He ate a slice of wonder bread and went right back to bed
And history books forgot about us and the bible didnt mention us
The bible didnt mention us, not even once

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first , I loved you first
Beneath the stars came falling on our heads
But they're just old light
They're just old light
Your hair was long when we first met

Samson came to my bed
Told me that my hair was red
Told me I was beautiful and came into my bed
I cut his hair myself one night
A pair of dull scissors and the yellow light
He told me that I'd done alright
and kissed me till the morning light the morning light
and he kissed me till the morning light

Samson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
Ate a slice of wonder bread
and went right back to bed
We couldn't break the columns down
No, we couldn't destroy a single one
and the history books forgot about us
and the bible didnt mention us
not even once

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first

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SarahLovesMusic
11-10-2004

Rated +2 
This song is so beautiful.. I can't stop listening to it. I think this song is about a love shared between these two people.. and the love was real and honest and pure.. but yet it was a simple love. "history books forgot about us and the bible didn't mention us."

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fromthehouseoflords
11-29-2004

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gahhhh i love this song too! regina is so freaking brilliant.. this was my first song. its definitely about being in love- about being in love without questions, only maybe-answers.

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rustytheskatemaker
12-05-2004

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This reminds me of Deliah and Samson in the bible. It's like Deliah [excuse me if I spelled her name wrong] was trying to tell someone her view of their relationship. Samson had long hair and she cut it and was a notorious slut/whore in the bible. But according to this song, they really loved each other. She's trying to put everything that is right back together while everyone else is twisting them around.

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ivegotatimebomb
04-07-2005

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I think this is about Samson, but not Sampson and Delilah. Well, it could be, but the line that says: "and the bible doesn't mention us" makes me think that this is a woman who came BEFORE Delilah and it says that she loved him first, perhaps before this Delilah came into his life.

This woman was first, and what they had was beautiful. However Regina meant it, it's a m a z i n g.

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ultimatesparanza
04-28-2005

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I think this song really is about Regina finding a man who was willing to be weak and open to her. After all, Sampson knew all his strength came from his hair. The image of him loving a woman so much that he let her cut his hair is powerful because he would be so vunerable. I think many women wish that men would more often let down their machismo guards and reveal themselves. Regina may still be looking for a Sampson who will let her cut his hair...

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Zuleykaa
05-11-2005

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"And history books forgot about us and the bible didnt mention us" I think she's trying to tell that the history books and the bible didnt mention their love.. it didnt explain their love and their lives.. i know the story of sampson and delilah since i was a little girl.. but what i really know and what history really cared to tell was the fact that delilah deceived sampson.. and this song brings a new and fresh conception of the story.. in this song what really matters is their love... sampson dindt care to be deceived because of his mad love, and delilah.. well maybe she was following the orders of her people..and then in the middle of it she falls in love too..

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tasteslikeG0LD
05-20-2005

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this song is so gorgeous

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bleedingmaskarah
06-27-2005

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I love these lyrics.. such little things that mean the world..

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Smooth-a-tron
08-10-2005

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For some reason, I don't think this song is very linear. For me it seems to jump perspectives a lot - like, I can't say for sure "This is from the perspective of the woman who first loved Samso", because to me, the repeated "You are my sweetest downfall" sounds like something Samson would be saying. I think this song does a really good job of showing how with Delilah, when his hair is cut (Second verse), he's very disconnected - He's just lost his source of power, and he goes and eats some bread, and goes to sleep, but with this other woman, he "Kisses her till the morning light" - how Samson really had that deep emotional connection with this other woman.

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turpentine_patches
10-23-2005

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i feel that regina is speaking of this love she had with a man. she compares her love with the great {and tragic} love story of samson & delilah. their relationship follows the same story line and to her it holds the same significance. yet in the grand scheme of things its insignificant for they were forgotten by the history books and the bible.

and i dont think it's "they're just soft light" i thought it sounded more like "they're just dull light" which would fit in later w/ the song.

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lenepope
11-06-2005

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actually i think its more like "they're just old light" coz the light from stars takes so long to reach us.

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Lan
12-11-2005

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Well maybe infact, samson is a SHE... i wonder if that ever occured to any of you

:)

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musicforlife!
01-04-2006

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Doesn't she use the pronoun "he"?

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pychobj2001
01-12-2006

Rated +1 
you all have it correct i bet...that's what is so great about her music...if it's a good song you can related to any storyline you want..it goes into your heart and in your minds eye it play's out....different everytime i play the song but the main one that play's in my head is the story of sampson and delilah and just them laying around in love w/ each other she was this person that was nitorious for sleeping with many men but she had this new thing she had to do for the goverment to get close enough to this man to cut his hair..and she fell for him..and that was her downfall...falling for him...she cut his hair..but..regreted it....and at the same time i see that story and a modern one with regina trying to get close to a man, or maybe she fell inlove w/ a man she never thought she would fall in love with...but mainly an awsome song...

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divinerosie.
01-14-2006

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unconditional love.
the msot beautiful thing to the two of you yet you know in your heart its only with you two
nothing great wonderful the world wont stand still for you
"the bible didnt mention us"
not worthy of that as it can happen to everyone
even if she makes samson loose all his strength he'll still love her.
perhaps?
rx

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picktionary
01-16-2006

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well, first of all, i think this song HAS to do with the story of samson and dellilah. the story is all about how she lured him to her, and then cut his hair off, which was his strength, so that the greeks/romans/whoevers would be able to finally defeat him.


what i get from this song, is that regina is using this scenario to reflect a story of maybe her own love? because certainly, during the real life of samson, there was no wonderbread. =]

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adamanteve
01-23-2006

Rated +3 
I love Regina because she writes little stories, like short fiction, instead of just writing all about her own life and it is very refreshing. She has said herself that that's how she writes all of her songs, like stories, so she can take on any point of view...
Anyway I think this definitely has to do with Samson, but not Delilah. I think it's like Regina taking the point of view of a woman who came before Delilah, who truly loved Samson instead of just wanting to cut off his hair so he would lose his strength. But Samson loved her and trusted her enough to let himself be vulnerable with her. He let her cut off his hair. But their love ended for whatever reason, and she is reflecting on how beautiful it was even though no one will ever know about it because no one ever mentioned it. At least that's how I look at it...it's a gorgeous song. Also I think "Your hair was long when we first met" sort of meant that he had his guard up, and that he didn't want to let her in. I don't think she regretted cutting his hair at all, I mean it says, "And he told me that I had done alright and kissed me 'til the morning light" so I think they were happy.
But then Delilah came along and that was the story that everyone heard about.
No matter how you look at it, bottom line, very pretty song. And a great way to open up her album Songs.

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bittersweet637
04-04-2006

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I made a few corrections to the posted lyrics. Sorry if there are still a few mistakes:

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first, I loved you first
Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth
I have to go, I have to go
Your hair was long when we first met

Samson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
He ate a slice of wonder bread and went right back to bed
And history books forgot about us and the Bible didn't mention us
And the Bible didn't mention us, not even once

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first, I loved you first
Beneath the stars came falling on our heads
But they're just old light, they're just old light
Your hair was long when we first met

Samson came to my bed,
told me that my hair was red,
told me I was beautiful, and came into my bed
Oh, I cut his hair myself one night
A pair of dull scissors and the yellow light
And he told me that I'd done alright and
kissed me till the morning light the morning light
and he kissed me till the morning light

Samson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
Ate a slice of wonder bread and went right back to bed
Oh, we couldn't bring the columns down
Yeah, we couldn't destroy a single one
And history books forgot about us and the Bible didn't mention us, not even once

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first

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eleven24eleven
05-03-2006

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most amazing song ever.

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alex_and_ra
05-16-2006

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ok, so i have a theory on this and im probably looking into it too much, but this is what i think about everytimke i hear it
the idea that samson gets all his strength from his hair, this man,
who may not actually be called samson, thats just for metaphorical purposes
who carries around his strength like a prize, (eg samson in his hair) as if hes proud, and always has his guard up and never opens up
and the idea of the narrator cutting his hair, stands for letting him open up to her
and the narrator is sort of saying how they've struggled etc, and maybe sometimes the relationship can be destrcutive "you are my sweetest downfall", but that shes the one who can do him good, and cut his hair,
"he told me that I'd done alright and
kissed me till the morning light "
he displays gratitude etc
the first time his hair is "cut" may symbolise him just breaking down and crying, but then just carrying on like normal, trying to do brilliant things to cover up his fragility: "He ate a slice of wonder bread and went right back to bed",
and the second time, its like she eases him into 'cutting his hair'


yeh so thats just my idea, sorry if its totally wrong, but i kind of like it, as if its the case, i can relate to 'samson'

id also love to know the significance of
"Oh, we couldn't bring the columns down
Yeah, we couldn't destroy a single one",
it doesn't really fit in with my idea, so i'm probably wrong

its a beautiful song anyway i love this woman

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ukdean31
05-20-2006

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Everyone's ideas seem possible, especially ultimatesparanza's. I have a completely different idea but I'm not totally sure about it because it doesn't go in with some lines but I think it might be about wrong first impressions. How Samsn's hair was long when she first met him eg he seemed indestructible but then his hair was short eg he didn't seem so great anymore. The lines I'm not sure that it would go with are= "I loved you first" but then that could be saying she loved him first, which is ironic because now she's falling out of love with him; "And history books forgot about us and the bible didnt mention us. The bible didnt mention us, not even once" but that could possible be saying that what she used to feel for him is now forgotten; "You are my sweetest downfall" but that could be saying how although it hasn't ended up going so well it was good at the time; "Oh i cut his hair myself one night" but that could be saying that she provoked him changing and "and he kissed me till the morning light" but that could be saying even though she now didn't love him he still loved her. So yeah after reading other people's ideas I think mine's is unlikely but possible. I can't wait till the new version of Samson on Begin To Hope but at the same time I'm a bit disappointed that Regina used it again, because I know that this seems to be most people's favourite song of hers but they are all so amazing.

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buffyx
05-20-2006

Rated +2 
I went and read some about the story of Samson and Delilah, and I think it gave me more insight into this song.

According to the biblical story, Samson was given extraordinary physical strength through God. First he fell in love with a woman named Timnah, a Philistine, and weds her-- at the wedding reception, he promises a group of Philistines that he will provide them with thirty sets of clothes if they can solve a riddle. They are unable to solve it, but they implore Timnah to get the answer from him-- she does, and tells them, and Samson becomes furious because he doesn't have clothing to give to them.

He leaves town and kills thirty other men in a nearby village, steals their clothing, but when he returns, Timnah is now married to a friend of his. Enraged, he ultimately ends up killing a thousand of the Philistines.

When he goes to Gaza, Samson meets and falls in love with Delilah. The Philistines convince her to get him to tell her the source of his power-- he tells her it's his hair (however, it was not *really* in his hair, but because he had already broken two laws of the Nazarite. this was enough for God to take his power away from him).

Delilah cuts off all of Samson's hair, and then he is captured by the Philistines, who gouge out his eyeballs. However, the way he dies is by pulling down the two central pillars in a temple.

This seems to be referred to in the song with the lines "Oh, we couldn't bring the columns down / Yeah, we couldn't destroy a single one."

I think the narrator of this song-- Delilah-- is lamenting about what could have been. Because she secretly did love Samson. All of the stories say that Samson loved Delilah, and make no mention of her returning the feelings. The lyric "I loved you first" seems to imply that not only did she love him back, but she loved him before he even loved her.

As I see it, this song is about how she imagined a different ending for their tragic romance. In this version, after she cuts his hair, he just eats a piece of bread, tells her it's okay, it's all right, nothing has changed. They make love and get a happy ending.

And in her version, the Bible doesn't even mention them because what she did didn't matter-- he didn't change history, and they just loved each other, quietly.

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heartbeats_xxx
05-21-2006

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i think buffyx nailed it right on the head.

this is just regina rewriting history to give it a happy ending.

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blondiemacdougall
05-23-2006

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this is the first song i had ever heard by regina, one of my friends MADE me check her out. and she is great. one hell of a beautiful song

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Way_AE
05-31-2006

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I can't believe her voice & the melody of this song. It's amazing.

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