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Dear someone listening in the shadows
I only talk to you sometimes
And though I ask for help in riddles
It is clearer in my mind, clearer in my mind
Born of a sign that carries vessels
But in a month that's cold as ice
I know I question things too quickly
But I have never questioned if I've loved
Dear someone watching from the shadows
I'm clenching water in my fists
the drops, they slip right through my fingers
But there's water on my lips, water on my lips
Born of a sign that carries vessels
But in a month that brings just ice
I know I question things too quickly
But I've never wondered if I've loved
Dear someone watching from the shadows
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
Born of a sign that carries water
But in a month that brings just ice
I'm not a skillful water carrier
But I've learned to carry love,
learned to carry love...
I only talk to you sometimes
And though I ask for help in riddles
It is clearer in my mind, clearer in my mind
Born of a sign that carries vessels
But in a month that's cold as ice
I know I question things too quickly
But I have never questioned if I've loved
Dear someone watching from the shadows
I'm clenching water in my fists
the drops, they slip right through my fingers
But there's water on my lips, water on my lips
Born of a sign that carries vessels
But in a month that brings just ice
I know I question things too quickly
But I've never wondered if I've loved
Dear someone watching from the shadows
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
Born of a sign that carries water
But in a month that brings just ice
I'm not a skillful water carrier
But I've learned to carry love,
learned to carry love...
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But in a month that's cold as ice"
And in her genius brilliant regina spektor way she uses metaphors to basically combine the contradictions of god and the phenomenon of astrology to point out that they clearly dont exist, love is the undeniable true religion, she cant carry water, she ask for help in riddles but she doesnt deny that she knows one thing Love, LOVE is her religion and her personality cannot be defined by the stars.
I believe that lines referencing water and ice are about what she wants to do in life versus what she is capable of doing. Her disappointment have yet to keep her from enjoying life.
I know Regina Spektor is very religious, so there is no doubt there is a possibility that the shadow person is god. But to me, an atheist, the shadow person is not. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder-right?
ps, Go Aquarii :D
i am a christian and i am NOT forcing this on people. because they have free will and its ur choice. :)
Meet Quirky Aquarius Girl. She doesn't really confide in anyone, because she thinks she's so odd. She's not sure of much, but she understands love. However, most people won't give her the chance to prove it because she's so unusual. She points out all the paradoxes of her sun sign ("born of a sign that carries water, but in a month that brings just ice").
Now she decides to confide in someone, at long last. She "only talks to them sometimes," but they understand her. She's never really had success in love before ("the drops slip right through her fingers") but this person has seen her through thick and thin ("you've seen me lose all the water from my hands")... and they've realized that they're right for each other.
I could be completely off, of course. I just really connected with the song when I heard it, because I related to that particular interpretation. It's like the story of my life. :D