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December Lyrics
december starts on sunday next sunday
won't you feel happier then? turn your room upside down turn your down upside rumours have started that you are in love again rumours that are completely unsubstantiated come on and say you're sorry real sorry for the trouble that you caused can't you see all this love? can't you see all this love? come on and say you're sorry real sorry for the trouble that you caused can't you see all this love? can't you see all this love? we are not evacuating this house we don't believe in you and your wrecking crew we are not evacuating this house we don't believe in you and your wrecking crew we don't believe in you and your wrecking crew we don't believe in you, we don't believe in you we don't believe in you, we don't believe in you we don't believe in you, we don't believe in you |
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06-05-2005
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07-17-2005
The second verse is God trying to talk to the human. He's telling the human and all of human race to apologize for all the war and hate they brought to the world, along with all the sin and stuff. He's asking how they don't see all his love for them and the world.
The last verse should be pretty clear given this explanation. The humans are talking again, and they're saying that they're not giving up their standpoint that God doesn't exist. They don't believe in him and his power.
I do like this song. It's got really interesting lyrics. I'm an athiest though, and I don't believe in God and his wrecking crew, either. :)
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01-21-2006
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03-20-2006
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04-12-2006
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05-04-2006
my favorite part is the first round of
"come on and say you're sorry
real sorry for the trouble that you caused
can't you see all this love?
can't you see all this love?"
i love how it starts out with her almost asking for someone to be genuinely sorry, and then by the second time she asks "can't you see all this love?" it is angry, as if asking to know why the relationship is over.
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06-05-2006
"We are not evacuatin' this 'ouse,
we dont believe in you and your wreking crew"
I believe the house is a metaphor, and the wrecking crew to be a metaphor for the devices(such as an affair) used by the other person in the relationship to destroy it.
its just like the singers saying "You cant destroy my love, because deeply, deep down, i know you dont want this".
The "we dont believe in you" makes me think that maybe this is a divorce, a family belief? maybe. . .
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08-26-2006
Not sure I naturally agree, although it's convincing. It's a song of painful faith, at least.. If the Sabbath is the depths of winter, that suggests a profound bleakness attached to spirituality, maybe newfound atheism. To lose your religion would 'turn your down upside' - cause your darkness to surface. To find you have fallen out of love with the Creator is painfully captured in those lines about rumours of romance, where any playful tone is overtly and deliberately disowned by the singer.
'Come on and say'; an unapologetic confession? Spektor's voice is unusually apathetic as she sings, over and over, 'can you see all thise love?'.
The final verse baffles me. Why does she start singing like a ruddy old Cockney? Is that how we sound to God, when we cling on to our houses in the face of 'You and Your wrecking crew'?
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12-24-2006
it's not...
turn your room upside down
turn your down upside
it is...
turn your frown upside down
turn your down upside
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03-04-2007
I think the very first lines are someone talking to one of the people involved in the divorce, trying to cheer him/her up, but the song is in the voice of that person beginning with "rumors." The lines about the rumors interrupt the previous ones, like the person can't even think about being happier with all these rumors about his/her ex-spouse being in love again. I think saying that they are completely unsubstantiated is more hopeful than certain.
In the next verse, the person wants his/her ex to be sorry for all the pain this divorce has caused, making it sound like he/she was the one who wanted a divorce and not the narrator. The narrator is still in love and wants, at the very least, acknowledgement from his/her ex that mistakes were made.
I agree with fitzgerald that the house is metaphorical, but I think it's metaphorical to the narrator. I think he/she doesn't want to give up the house that he/she lived in with his/her (I really wish English had a gender-neutral pronoun. I know it's technically 'he,' but it really doesn't work.) spouse because it represents the life they shared. When he/she says that he/she doesn't believe in "you and your wrecking crew," I think it's a desperate, stubborn denial of what is happening. I think the wrecking crew is a metaphor for the lawyers, maybe, or other people involved in the divorce. He/she does not want to accept that what they had is done, but there's not really much he/she can do besides cling to the house, trying to pretend that everything will just go away.
And I also have no idea why she suddenly uses an accent in the final verse, but I don't think I'd like her half as well if I understood all the whys in her songs. Anyway, it's that accent that makes the final verse my favorite.
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04-16-2007
rumours have started that you are in love again
rumours that are completely unsubstantiated (People giving up on God, and then suddenly clinging back to him, saying "We're sorry! We love you!" But only when they .n.e.e.d. him, of course)
come on and say you're sorry
real sorry for the trouble that you caused (Messing around with religion)
can't you see all this love? (God's love)
we are not evacuating this house (Atheists (and whatever else) suddenly denying God and saying he's not real... "You won't destory our beliefs!")
we don't believe in you and your wrecking crew (Seeing as God controls everything, I'm pretty sure (the "We don't believe..." is obvious) and his powers or whatnot)
I'm not Christian, nor do I believe in just .o.n.e. God, but several Gods and Goddesses (There has to be women too, jeez... Men aren't the creator of things) I'm a Science believer, and I do not have one religion. I'm actually made my own, but I'm no hardcore person that prays and drinks red wine believing it to be some dead guy's blood (That's disgusting unless you're a vampire... *cough**cough*)
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04-16-2007
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07-16-2007
I'm going to go through the song line by line to explain why I think that.
december starts on sunday next sunday, won't you feel happier then? → cold actions/emotions are coming very soon, insinuating that the singer won't be with their loved one because their loved one is ready to move on.
turn your frown upside down, turn your down upside →the singer trying to convinve themselves to smile. Could be a double connotion, dually meaning to show a dark side. Whether it is the singer or the other person's dark side, I am unsure.
rumours have started that you are in love again, rumours that are completely unsubstantiated → Self-explanatory. Rumours are flying around town about an affair.
come on and say you're sorry, real sorry for the trouble that you caused. → Singer wants lover to apologize and continue their relationship. The way it's phrased though, makes the singer sound almost desperate.
can't you see all of this love?→ Singer is obviously still all the way in love with other person.
we are not evacuating this house; we don't believe in you and your wrecking crew → Singer won't leave the relationship. They don't believe the rumors of the affair. Or .. don't want to believe them.
we don't believe in you, we don't believe in you → Singer found out the rumors are true, so she can't and doesn't believe in anything the other person says or does.
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07-19-2007
They believe God is unhappy with mankind and is punishing them. They're asking God if he could be happy and stop plaguing them with the misfortunes of the world (natural disasters, famine, disease, etc.) on the holiest day of the week, Sunday, which is coming up. They're asking God to put a smile on his face for once. "Turn your down upside"... That's some sort of play on words. It's not clear to me yet. Maybe to make all of the wrongs (his "down") in the world right? I was even thinking some sort of reference to Hell, since it's technically down below him, but that's not really well founded.
The lines "Rumors have started that you are in love again/Rumors that are completely unsubstantiated," seems to refer to the fanatics you see every once in a while on TV, claiming to have seen a sign from God (such as the image of the Virgin Mary in a piece of toast), but these people singing see these signs as nothing but nonsense.
In the next verse, they're beginning to grow angry with God. They're not just asking him politely if he'll "feel happier" in the near future for them. They're questioning why God can't be happy with them in the first place. Sure, there are some non-believers in the world, but they are the ones that DO believe in him. Why do they have to be punished just as much as the sinners? Can't God see how much they love him? It's frustrating.
In the last verse they have not only given up asking God for help, but they've also stopped believing in him too. They're telling him, "Fine, do what you want to us, but we're not going to give up and leave this world as you seem to want. In fact, we're going to stop believing that you're actually up there doing all of these terrible things to us." The "house" is Earth, and God's plagues are the wrecking crew. They are no longer devout followers of God, but Athiests.
It's a beautiful song. Regina's very good at capturing what people feel and think without being obvious about the meaning. This song is describing a very realistic process of thought and logic many, nearly all people go through as they transition from the faithful to the faithless.
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07-19-2007
*turn your room upside down
turn your down upside* - the singer's upset and turning her room upside down lookin for some sort of hope etc
*rumours have started that you are in love again
rumours that are completely unsubstantiated* - the singer's hearing that the person has found yet another person
*come on and say you're sorry
real sorry for the trouble that you caused*- is where the sarcasm comes in, the one she loves always apologies and she's just waiting to hear the same old thing again
*can't you see all this love?* - she feels her love is taken for granted
*we are not evacuating this house
we don't believe in you and your wrecking crew* - basically saying "well i don't need you anyway..." sort of thing
just my idea ^^
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07-22-2007
we are not evacuating this house- she's basically speaking for her and her ex to the new lover telling her to give up and hit the road.
We don't belive in you and you're wrecking crew- she is still speaking for her ex telling the new lover that she doesn't believe there's a chance between the two and that she's a homewrecker.
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09-08-2007
this song to me, is about a girl and a boy, just because it says decemeber doesn't mean the birth of jesus, and yes i know she does make a alot of biblical refrences, but she also says "rumours have started that you are in love again
rumours that are completely unsubstantiated"
maybe december was when they meet, and they are no longer together, and shes asking if hes happier now because of what she has heard...but they both know hes really not okay with this "won't you feel happier then?
turn your frown upside down
turn your down upside"
it's just what i think....
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09-08-2007
"december starts on sunday next sunday
won't you feel happier then?"
The person's family or whatever is telling them winter's almost here, you'll feel better again. And they can start living life normally again.
"turn your room upside down
turn your down upside"
the person doesnt believe and refuses to unisolate him/herself
"we are not evacuating this house
we don't believe in you and your wrecking crew"
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09-21-2007
to me, its about her breaking up or divoring someone
and she hears that he's in love again- "rumours have started that you are in love again. rumours that are completely unsubstantiated"
and she doesn't want to accept that the person she loves is gone and that he doesnt want to love her anymore. its like he's wrecking her life- "we dont believe in you and your wrecking crew"
and at one point she's trying to show him that they love each other- "cant you see all this love?"
and, in one line, she sounds angry, forceful, like she wont give up to show him they should be together
thats what i think
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09-21-2007
it doesnt have to go so deep
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09-27-2007
rumours have started that you are in love again
rumours that are completely unsubstantiated
favorite part.
i think this song is about being heartbroken and wanting to talk to the person that broke your heart. to tell them about how they should feel sorry, and ask them why. how come. the love was there, you love them so much yet it still ends with you two apart. then you hear rumors of them dating and being in love...with someone else not you. and you feel empty. and as much as you try to get over them and you say you're over them you're never really are over them.
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10-27-2007
http://users.aristotle.net/~bhuie/birthday.htm
Jesus was born during the feast of Tabernacles, or in September
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12-04-2007
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12-29-2007
The whole theory about the last part being about god fits perfectly.
however, I always tend to relate it to my life whenever I hear it. Mostly, the messed up relationships among my little group of friends.
"Come on and say you're sorry for all the trouble that you've caused, can't you see all this love?"
It's like someone loves you and you don't love them back.
I discovered this song this December, too, and it really got to me.
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01-30-2008
i fell in love with this song the first time i listened to it.
it's always on repeat whenever i play it.
could december have to do with december 25?
and asking God if he'll be happier because all his followers begin to become really supportive during that month..
maybe its a different religion arguing with another?
the rumors about love is the only thing that confuses me.
first time i heard this i pictured a bad break up or a divorce, etc.
but who knows, regina is an amazing woman.
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