Regina Spektor – Rockland County

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  General Comment:Rockland County, NY exists. I live there. :)
  So I basically screamed when I found this song.
  It's so beautifully done too, like all of regina's songs.
  Does anyone know where I can download it?

  Flag IgniteAirwaveson May 11, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:i lvoe so much the part when she sings that she saw roger rabbit in the airplane :) it makes me smile anywhere

  Flag Feliponshon January 01, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:Is this the WHOLE song?! It just cuts out...

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  General Comment:i like to think that some of Regina's songs kind of fit together.. like they remind me of each other. this one def. makes me think of Us, that they both deal w. her personal journey to America (to me ne way)
  
  also i really like this song!

  Flag jazzy06792on October 24, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:I bet this story is a true one...about when she came to America.

  Flag morikahjoon September 28, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:This is such a great song. It feels so real and personal.
  
  The part that speaks to me is when she says how "They think that today/ It's so different /They believe that immigrants/ Shouldn't be allowed to come here anymore."
  
  It's the ultimate hypocrisy of American society: we're all descendants of immigrants, yet we forget and try to keep new immigrants from coming. like "illegal" immigration.

  Flag listentothemusic_1on June 30, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:I love the verse about Roger Rabbit. I can't explain why; it's just such a real, personal touch.

  Flag DetectiveArmanion April 17, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:for me this verse "Well, I just know they got something coming, If they got anything coming at all" is about america and how we have a huge plaque in front of our country saying "give us your tired, your weak.." but when immigrants get here the people say "NO.NO go back from which you came" karma.... we had it comin ...

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  General Comment:The American way of thinking isn't necessarily anti-immigrant. Just saying.
  
  I adore this song. Besides the beautiful, personal details she has such a talent for giving, there is so much to love about it. I like how she repeats herself at the end with the swimming pool and dog because she seems like an excited kid taking in a new place.
  
  I also find the beginning fascinating. "Condescending down the stairs" is so fantastic that I can't even think of anything to say about it.
  
  I'm a little confused about the two verses about knowing that they/I have something coming if they/I have anything coming at all. Obviously, if you have something coming, then you have something coming, but I'm not sure what she could being refering to with the "something." Opportunities? Changes? But then there's also the phrase: "got something coming to you," though I have no idea how that would work.
  
  Also, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" makes me cry (the poor little shoe - I was inconsolable the first time I saw it) :)

  Flag newsies234on February 23, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:It seems obvious that it's memories of her experience when she first arrived in America.
  
  I like the song, because I felt the same way when we came to America. We lived in a hotel first - yeah, also with a foldout couch, now that I think of it. Haha! And then the company my dad worked for let us rent a house, and being in that weird new American neighborhood was like being in a fantasy story.
  
  On the airplane, I played with the kids' toys that the airline gave me.
  
  There's a verse there, I think she's referring to how, when immigrants come in as young children, they become Americanized, think the American way.
  
  It's not that the American way is bad, but I'm glad we went back to my own country before I was too Americanized. Cultural identity is a strange thing.

  Flag chabocinnamonon February 21, 2007   Link

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