Lyrics for Another Town as interpreted by Risika

Another Town Lyrics
In another town
Don't let me forget
In another town
Mouths full of regrets
In another town
Please place final bets
In another town
But I know
I know
I know

In another town
My fingers so cold
In another town
My soul feels so old
In another town
I sold all my gold
In another town
I know
I know
I know

I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you

In another town
They've given me the key
In another town
I'm drinking for free
In another town
A girl just like me
In another town
But I know
I know
I know

In another town the light fills my room
In another town
They're painting my moon
In another town
I won't see it soon
In another town
I know
I know
I know

I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you

I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you

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queen_of_leaves
10-14-2006

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I love this song!!!

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datzl
01-03-2007

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i never herad someone sing "i love you" more beautiful and more meaningful than that!

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shobhna_guerin
02-08-2007

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Agreed. It's so beautiful.

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crow_heart
04-13-2007

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yeah!
this song it's beautiful
i think it's about feeling so different when you are in "another town" far from your home


regina have a gorgeous voice! ^^

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envirohodges
04-30-2007

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this is a great ong to me about moving on... and reinvention.

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just_old_light
07-25-2007

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To me, it sounds like someone thinking about all the other opportunities he was offered, all the other lives he could've led. What would have happened if he'd made that one choice instead of another, who and where would he be, who would the people he knew be, would he have been happier if...

And then there are the "in another town/I know, I know, I know"s and the "I love you"s. I think this is someone the main narrator is close to--it doesn't have to be his lover and often isn't when I play this story out in my head; maybe it's a best friend or a mother or a sibling--comforting him, telling him not to think and wonder so much, that everything, ultimately, turned out brilliantly because they have each other. That the life the wonderer actually chose has infinite value and meaning in itself, if only because he did choose it, that there is something beautiful and wonderful in that his life is entirely his own, his own decisions hand-picked to create results, his labor of love. Everyone could do with knowing someone like the narrator's friend, eh? Someone to remind us to stop worrying about what we don't have and appreciate everything we've made and earned and been given in our own lives.

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just_old_light
07-25-2007

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Er, I was using the generic "he" out of habit, but I just realized that I've always envisioned the narrator as female ("a girl just like me"). Oh, self, will your genius never end?

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fizzywater
08-08-2007

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i think it could be that the narrator has someone who is very special to them that they could be in love with or woudl like to but maybe in the future and not right now in their life making "another town" possibly be the future or on the downside never

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alexmakes
09-28-2007

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this song means alot to me. soon i'll be moving and going to college. it reminds me of my town and all the regrets here and "all the gold i've sold", the free drinking. the it turns to when i move i'll be given new york's key to the city. the part "a girl just like me" really touches me because I always wonder if there IS another girl, in a far away place wanting to get out and move to nyc. the last part is my favorite. regina's "i love you's" are heart-felt.

and I am screaming "I LOVE YOU" to my town as i pack and leave this shit hole.

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tnayem
10-28-2008

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man!
i love this song!
and can't stop listening to it
i swear, every time i hear this song, i want to scream 'i love youuu' spinning around with my arms wide open
but i don't, because of how silly and overdone that is, and this song is better than that

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tnayem
10-28-2008

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but that's not the meaning.

what do i think this song means?
well.
in the past, she lived this completely different life
she was a hotshot and she was loved, but she still made mistakes; she still had regrets. her life now's not bad; it's just different from what once was. she's not sure if she prefers the past or the now, but she's aware. the 'i love you''s can be directed to anyone, really? but i don't know. i see it as the people who were in her other town, the ones she doesn't talk to or see or maybe even remember the names of. regardless, she loves them, and she loves her past, and i love her.

this song sometimes reminds me of middle school, seeing as how i'm in high school now. but then again, sometimes it doesn't. it's just a great song, and i love it.

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blue.painted.tears
12-07-2008

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i love how the upbeat 'in another town's contrast with the dreamier 'i love you's.

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rosabianca1219
01-25-2009

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the song is about her as an artist playing shows in all of these different towns and how they are all different, all the things she does while she goes from town to town and how it makes her feel. but underneath all of the differences there is still this recurrent theme pulling on each line like a fish hook saying "i love you" over and over, going through and in and under and over everything else she is saying.

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Ragggamuffin
07-17-2009

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My personal interpretation sort of goes along with just_old_light's.

Regina, or perhaps she's speaking for/from another person, looks at all the possibilities of the outcome of her life if she hadn't been born in this life, or hadn't chosen the paths she did, or if anything in her current life had gone the other direction in the past.
But then she looks at her life now and is not only telling possibly herself "i love you" but all the other people shes encountered and met in this life shes living. These people could be her friends, family, lover(s), etc. The "i love you"s could also go to all the people she could have met, or would have met if things were different.

But then Regina, or the person she's speaking for, may be saying she wants to be elsewhere, "in another town" doing something else, being somewhere else, having other opportunities, etc. The "i love you"s in this case could go out to the people she has in this town, and how she loves them so much, and cares too much for them to leave to that "other town".

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TheAwkwardSwan
10-24-2009

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There's this girl who has lived her life in this "other town." She regrets not taking chances, and making the mistakes she did.

But now she's moved on (to a different town). She's in a new place, and she's not going to make the same mistakes twice. She's going to come right out and tell her lover that she loves him. No more regrets this time.

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