Lyrics for Eet as interpreted by kopra

Eet Lyrics
It's like forgetting the words to your favorite song
You can't believe it
You were always singing along
It was so easy and the words so sweet
You can't remember
You try to feel the beat

Eet, eet, eet, eet
Eet, eet, eet, eet

You spent half of your life trying to fall behind
You're using your headphones to drown out your mind
It was so easy, and the words so sweet
You can't remember
You try to move your feet
Eet, eet, eet, eet
Eet, eet, eet, eet

Someone's deciding whether or not to steal
He opens the window just to feel the chill
He hears that outside a small boy just starting to cry
'Cause it's his turn but his brother won't let him try

It's like forgetting the words to your favorite song
You can't believe it
You were always singing along
It was so easy and the words so sweet
You can't remember
You try to move your feet

It was so easy and the words so sweet
You can't remember, you try to feel the beat
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"Eet" as written by Regina Spektor
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kopra
06-02-2009

 Rated  +4 
I don't think this song has any specific meaning. I think it's more about having something that's so familiar taken away from you. You feel lost without it, and it's just awkward. So, you try to get it back. For example, we can look at this lyric:

"Someone's deciding whether or not to steal."

Perhaps that man has a family, and they suddenly became broke. They're used to having a decent income, but now {let's assume} their jobs are failing.

This may seem silly, but I think the repetition of the ees/eets -- while reminiscent of Regina's style -- show the awkwardness of getting something familiar back. It's like asking, "Is this right? How about now?"


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kelsska
06-03-2009

 Rated  -1 
i don't like most of the songs i'm hearing off of "far" so far, but i loved dance anthem once it was redone and this is so beautiful. the video is phenomenal, i think it's the most beautiful regina has ever been...
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=58118408

me and a friend were talking about far and although it's not regina with her drumstick hitting a chair, her lyrics are still written so well
but overall this song is great

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lemon147
06-04-2009

 Rated  +3 
wow kelsska, it's a shame you feel that way. i love all the new songs i'm hearing from "far"!!

and i agree with kopra, i think this song is about something in your life changing and suddenly you are out of your comfort zones and just want everything back to 'normal'.

to me, the second verse is like not wanting to get caught up in the world and its expectations, but you can't help but get caught up in it anyway.

the third verse - feeling a bit desperate in your circumstances, considering going against your values, and then getting a reality check or something that puts it in perspective (the selfish brother is a lesser version of the man considering stealing). either that, or it's just talking about human selfishness. i like to think the former :)

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kelsska
06-04-2009

 Rated  0 
well i'm not saying far is bad by any means, i just love her old albums so much more than what i'm hearing off of her new one. it's much more poppy and less regina-y in my opinion

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kopra
06-04-2009

 Rated  0 
For me, each album is different from one another. That's what I really like. Frankly, I don't think I would like it if Far was like 11:11 or Soviet Kitsch or Songs or Begin to Hope. Some songs, such as "Folding Chair" are pop-y, piano-only or not.
I don't think you should judge something current by something former. ;}

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coffeelover
06-05-2009

 Rated  0 
only piano or instrumental... doesn't matter.... she's very talented... like any good artist she's trying to do something different... but the esscence is there.. so go regina!

i love this song... i think is about loving something so much.. and then all the love/passion that you felt once is gone... and is replaced by feelings that you're not sure if they're good or bad.. or if it just doesn't matter anymore



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howonderfulifeis
06-05-2009

 Rated  -1 
Don't get me wrong here,
Regina has blossomed beautifully
from her singing in cafes days,
but I'm just not feeling this
song.
I feel like the Old Regina has
somehow become more mainstream in
the Far album.
Compared to 11:11, Songs, and Soviet Kitsch
this album is the least impressive one. (To
me at least)


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Imahollowplay
06-06-2009

 Rated  +2 
Well, I don't want to judge an entire album based on the four songs we've heard so far...
If someone had played me Fidelity, Better, On the Radio, and Hotel Song and said: "Behold, the new Regina album", I would have been very disappointed. But, Begin to Hope had some beautiful moments.
I think the thing that scares me, is that although the lyrics are still excellent, the songs don't appear to be as creative musically and they seem overproduced.

I still love Regina though and would love to see her live again. That way, you get her and a piano (and a drumstick).

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love_is_free
06-09-2009

 Rated  -5 
I think this songs lyrics are heinously obvious and lack much depth, if they have any. It's a song about losing something which was easy and let you escape.

I hate her new songs. They're shit. The lyrics are not Regina. And the pop-drum beat in Laughing With makes me want to commit suicide, that's not what Regina's about. It's really lame that she's compromised her incredible individualistic style with this new album. I miss her Back of a Truck and Happy Hooker days.

I love all the old songs that she included studio-recorded and augmented on this album. That is, I love them as they were originally recorded live. I don't like the new versions though. She's just killing everything i love about her with this album. Kinda makes me want to die inside! I miss Regina. Fuck. The second half of Dance Anthem of the 80s as recorded for this album is all right... that's as optimistic as I can get about this album. The videos are retarded, too.

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morganic22
06-09-2009

 Rated  0 
i worship regina. like for me, she can't do wrong. but, i do agree that i have to say i am a veryyyyy HUGE fan of her punk- im gonna record my own shit days, where her lyrics were raw and made you wanna just sit in her brain ... i do still adore this stuff, yes in a different light but a light nonetheless :D i keep thinking about the line..

"He hears that outside a small boy just started to cry
'Cause it's his turn, but his brother won't let him try."

i keep trying to conjure up some sorta skewed meaning, any ideas?

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jinjuuleee
06-14-2009

 Rated  0 
I think this song is really pretty, and I agree with the other posts saying how it's about losing something familiar to you. The first verse gets me.

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sophiaclovee
06-16-2009

 Rated  +1 
I kind of think it has to do with all the things that are happening. People losing their jobs, homes, even opportunities. Things really aren't the way they once were, but then again I guess that what it's like. Things just don't stay the same forever, not even us.

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Oxymoronyc
06-16-2009

 Rated  0 
Why is everyone being all like "This new album sucks. I HATE REGINA. DDDD:"
I personally like her old stuff and her new stuff. 11:11 all the way up to Far.
I don't really like Laughing With, just doesn't strike my fancy.

But I do love this song. I think it's lovely. Though, I am having trouble figuring out the "Someone's deciding whether or not to steal" verse... Any help?

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dietrichpiaf
06-17-2009

 Rated  +2 
I think this song is about the lost childhood 'cause it's something we knew very well until we grow up....it's something that artist are always trying to recover but it's so difficult to do... we only have the echos (You can't remember; you try to feel the beat. Bee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-Eet eet eet.) of the sweet words and innocent thoughts we used to have.
When she sings.." Someone's deciding whether or not to steal.
He opens a window just to feel the chill.
He hears that outside a small boy just started to cry
'Cause it's his turn, but his brother won't let him try."
I think she's trying to show the incomprehensible brother who is older than the little boy ...he hs grown and can't understand the simplicity of the happyness of a child, his innocent mind even if his brother could be "protecting him" or just don't mind it.....

maybe..

sorry for my bad english :P


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beguntorust
06-19-2009

 Rated  0 
I agree, dietrichpiaf! The man decididing whether or not to steal seems very conflicted, as if opening the window "just to feel the chill" would clear his mind and lend some clarity. Then hearing the boy's cries brings him back to childhood and innocence.

I love how Regina says "it's his turn" with such childish petulance, especially in the video. And I love that she chose not to say what exactly they were taking turns doing. I think it captures the two brothers' innocence that the man is truing to regain.

As for the repetition of "eet", I'm not sure if it necessarily has any meaning. It reminds me a lot of the word "living" in Us, which might be why I like this song so much as well.

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pallidity
06-20-2009

 Rated  0 
To throw my two cents in on the talk about liking/disliking the album, I've never been able to really get into her. There's been a handful of songs I've liked, but mostly I ignore the rest. Everything except the Dance Anthem from this new album that I've heard has made me appreciate her a lot more. I'm not sure why, exactly. The songs on Far call to me a lot more than most of her others.

Does anyone have any idea what's she's referring to with "eet"? I doubt that it's just a noise, considering the song is named that.

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GoodLuckJill
06-21-2009

 Rated  +3 
love is free-

I truly believe that if someone records a song that they love, put a piece of themselves in the song, then it's beautiful. Music is an extension of people and unfortunately, some people let others control their direction in life and so, by extension, their music. But I completely disagree with all those who say Regina is trying to make her music more mainstream, or trying to cater towards certain people, a certain fan base, etc. Someone who has created songs with such intelligence yet such depths of human emotion, as she has since her first album is not someone who would ever let others steer her or her music.

So I don't understand how you can say you miss Regina. All artists grow and change if they are any good, if they are really making the music to make music as they want and not just to make money. You can't possibly say the more obvious lyrics and the more mainstream beats make it shit. Neil Young for example. Every one of his albums was different. He lost fans because with one album he would become "more mainstream" and was called out for trying to be more listenable for the masses and with another he would be so out there that people thought he was losing his mind. The thing is, he did what he wanted whenever he wanted to. Not for others, for himself.



You say you miss the old Regina. Because her older music wasn't mainstream, not fit into any particular mold.
If you don't like her because her music is different now, then I'm going to call you out on putting her in a mold, the mold of always creating music like that of 11:11 and Songs.

She's living life, growing, changing. Her music is too. This is obviously what she wants to record at this point in her life, you can't possibly judge her for that.

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CeDeEs
06-23-2009

 Rated  +1 
I agree with most of you in that the song is about losing something really special and struggling to get it back.
For me though, I always thought "eet" referred to the word "delete." "Eet" sounds like the "del" got deleted (irony! haha).
Plus it goes well with the theme of lost memories. The sudden deletion of precious memories, "like forgetting the words to your favorite song... you can't believe it"

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imanididit
06-24-2009

 Rated  0 
i got the album today and i can say that this is definitely one of my favorites.
i just miss old Regina though.
i know what i'm sleeping to tonight.

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CalmBlue
06-25-2009

 Rated  +2 
My opinion is that this song is about losing something that always used to come naturally to you, more specifically your sense of humanity, or a sense of connection to the world.
But in the end, it's really your own fault. You disconnected yourself.
But there are small things around you that bring you back bit by bit, like the quiet injustice of a boy denied his chance to play with a toy.


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junglejake
06-26-2009

 Rated  +2 
This song struck me as I listened to it a few times. Regina seems to have a remarkable talent for creating or having created videos that express the song so well. What first struck me was the line, "You're using your headphones to drown out your mind," which described what I was doing without even realizing it to a T. Or Y, in this case, since there are no ts in that line.

It's curious, because she has this amazing symbolic gift that I've found can apply to so many things that is amplified by many of her videos. For example, when the locket breaks in Fidelity, my mind still reels back in both horror and hope.

Who hasn't forgotten the words to their favorite song? How many other things to life can that be applied to? Something so familiar vanishes from your accessible memory. It's still there, but there seems to be a wall blocking it from you. You grasp, you search, you know it's there, but you just can't find it. Someone above mentioned losing something familiar, but this can also apply to moving away from something familiar, or losing that passion you used to have for something familiar.

Even the lines about a small boy not being able to try because of his brother... We learn, we gain far more experience and wisdom from trying than we do being taught, but how many times has someone "wiser" than you stopped you from learning a critical life lesson? How many times have you stopped someone, remembering the pain of the lesson, from doing the same thinking it was for their good?

So much of the song speaks to so many aspects, and the symbolism is vague enough, yet profound enough, that I think you can identify with elements no matter where you are. This woman has a gift, and I look forward to hearing more of what she writes!

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FakeTomato
06-27-2009

 Rated  0 
This song reminds me of two things. Because of the ba dum ba dum, drum beat in the back ground, I'm thinking it has to do something with a heart beat. Like how this person is thinking about trying to steal and it's something that's tearing them apart. Where the little boy is crying about something so simple. Things tear you apart no matter how old you are, and sometimes they are little things. And all the time the pain feels so bad you just want to die. Under neath it all your heart is still beatting.

Also I'm remined of a Sylvia Plath poem. I think it's called Mirror. There is a line that says something like "I've stared at it so long I feel it is part of my heart". Maybe that's what the song is like. Just with listening to a song. And forgetting the lyrics to the song at the around the same time this guy is thinking about stealling signifies a loss of something in his heart. Innocence, perhaps.

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sheela_l
06-27-2009

 Rated  0 
I extremely dislike it when the comments on a song are all about whether the songwriter has sold out or not, and not what the song is actually about :/

For me, if anyone has read The Meaning of Liff, it's a collection of "Daffynitions" --- alternate meanings on puns using existing words or misspellings of existing words. "Eet" is a misspelling of "eat" and it's trying to describe a feeling that doesn't have an official word yet. There's a line from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books about a word that roughly means "the feeling you get when you realize you've used the last of the toilet paper". "Eet" would be in this case a feeling of Jamais Vu or forgetfulness.

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EazyBee
07-01-2009

 Rated  +2 
I think it's about life and how their are so many simplicities in it, but when you put it all together, it's very very complicated.

EET!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extra_element_theorem

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sailorsong
07-01-2009

 Rated  0 
this song, as well as the album which i havent stopped listening to since it came out, is a poetic masterpiece. fuck all of you that say this shit about old regina and new regina. regina is regina and you cant judge a new song compared to another. youll have a better chance in comparing democrats and republicans. regina is random and writes and array of many things ranging in many issues and topics. for instance i watched an interview of her and she said this album is influenced by religion mainly. so of course its going to bring up drama. but the amzaing thing about regina is that she puts it in your face and makes you think about everything in a subtle manor. that is why she is, in my opinion, the greatest musician in current popular music today.




i just wished i knew exactly what the word eet means

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