| Regina Spektor – Us Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I always thought of parents talking about how the way their children look at them changes as they grow up. At first, when the kids are little they put them on a pedestal(make a statue of us and put it on a mountain)I thought it was kids becasue they were talking about bubble gum and fun and how they take pictures of the statues, but it says tourists take the pictures, so you know that like tourists, the children won't stay there forever and look at you that way forever. Then as they grow older( teens and early 20s)The parent's will have had a bigger influence on them, but they feel anomosity totowards them, because you know how kids blame their parents for their problems(i know I do sometimes...)Then they'll give them a talking to, like scolding them or complaining to them how they've ruined their lives, becasue the kids just know SO much more than parents. The Den of theives refers to the world stealing their innocent children away, and how the parents flip through the pages of the bible or parenting books, trying to figure out where they went wrong and the children flip trhough the pages of literature and try to broaden their horizons, searching for the meaning of life. The parents think of how their little innocent children made a statue of them when they were younger but the nose begins to rust, and the statue isn't quite as beatiful, and the kids don't see their parents as the beautiful amazing statue anymore. Then when they say it's contagious, I think it means when the kids have children, the same thing is going to happen and repeat throughout generations. like when you hear people say they'll never be like their parents, but they end up saying the same things they swore they never would. It sounds a little bit sad though, to me. I don't know why. It's a beautiufl song, though. I like the way you put it anna |
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| Regina Spektor – Us Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I always thought of parents talking about how the way their children look at them changes as they grow up. At first, when the kids are little they put them on a pedestal(make a statue of us and put it on a mountain)I thought it was kids becasue they were talking about bubble gum and fun and how they take pictures of the statues, but it says tourists take the pictures, so you know that like tourists, the children won't stay there forever and look at you that way forever. Then as they grow older( teens and early 20s)The parent's will have had a bigger influence on them, but they feel anomosity totowards them, because you know how kids blame their parents for their problems(i know I do sometimes...)Then they'll give them a talking to, like scolding them or complaining to them how they've ruined their lives, becasue the kids just know SO much more than parents. The Den of theives refers to the world stealing their innocent children away, and how the parents flip through the pages of the bible or parenting books, trying to figure out where they went wrong and the children flip trhough the pages of literature and try to broaden their horizons, searching for the meaning of life. The parents think of how their little innocent children made a statue of them when they were younger but the nose begins to rust, and the statue isn't quite as beatiful, and the kids don't see their parents as the beautiful amazing statue anymore. Then when they say it's contagious, I think it means when the kids have children, the same thing is going to happen and repeat throughout generations. like when you hear people say they'll never be like their parents, but they end up saying the same things they swore they never would. It sounds a little bit sad though, to me. I don't know why. It's a beautiufl song, though. |
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