Genius Meanings
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Regina Spektor – Lady
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A tribute to one of Regina’s influences: the jazz-singer Billie Holiday, also known as Lady Day. The song talks about Billie’s hardships in life and the hardships of artists in
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Regina Spektor – Hotel Song
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The song is about a young girl waking up after trying cocaine in a hotel not knowing where she is.
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Regina Spektor – Après Moi
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This song speaks about citizens revolting against monarchies they feel have oppressed them (mainly French and Russian are referenced in this song). It talks about how after
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Regina Spektor – On the Radio
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This song reveals the true meaning of life through an individual’s events in their own life. From the death of a loved one, the loss of innocence, and Regina’s own revelation.
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Regina Spektor – Eet
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“Eet” is a wistful, introspective song brimming with nostalgia. The overarching themes seem to be about a person’s development of morality through their experience in their
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Regina Spektor – Fidelity
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“Fidelity” explores the apprehension of falling in love, worrying about the inevitable heartbreak that could arise from yielding feelings to another person.
Not being known as a
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Regina Spektor – Better
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“Better” is one of Regina’s oldest songs. She decided to record it for Begin to Hope with guitar from Nick Valensi of The Strokes.
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Regina Spektor – Daniel Cowman
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On the day that Daniel Cowman stopped existing / The world should've ended right then and there / Precisely at four-fifteen when he stopped existing / The world should've ended
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Regina Spektor – Summer in the City
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“Summer In The City” is a song depicting someone wandering the streets of a city, missing an ex-lover and feeling extremely lonely and nostalgic. The song was released on May 16
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Regina Spektor – Hero
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Regina speaks on original sin
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Regina Spektor – Music Box
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“Musicbox” is a bonus track from the Deluxe version of 2006’s Begin To Hope.
The song begins in an intricately melodic sequence of trills and runs that simulate the delicate sound
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Regina Spektor – Edit
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[Refrain] / White lines on your mind / Keep it steady / You were never ready for the lies / White lines on your mind / Keep it steady / You were never ready for the lies / [Chorus
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Regina Spektor – Düsseldorf
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Regina is essentially singing her travel diary. She croons about her very personal experiences in various locations across Europe. It’s a travel ode to the dichotomy of friendly
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Regina Spektor – That Time
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Often Regina like to play characters in her songs.
This time: thug life.
She’s remembering all those times with a person.
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Regina Spektor – 20 Years of Snow
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He's a wounded animal / He lives in a matchbox / He's a wounded animal / And he's been coming around here / He's a dying breed / He's a dying breed / His daughter is twenty years
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Regina Spektor – Another Town
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[Verse 1] / In another town / Don't let me forget / In another town / Mouth full of regrets / In another town / Please place final bets / [Verse 2] / In another town / But I know I
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Regina Spektor – Bartender
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[Verse 1] / Come on bartender / Won't you be more tender / Give me two shots of whiskey / And a beer chaser / [Chorus] / Love will be the death of me / Love is so fickle / It
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Regina Spektor – Field Below
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[Verse 1] / I wish I'd see a field below / I wish I'd hear a rooster crow / But there are none who live downtown / And so the day starts out so slow / [Chorus] / Again the sun was
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Regina Spektor – Baobabs
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This is a demo Regina re-recorded as a bonus track on the deluxe version of ‘Begin to Hope’. Based off Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 1943 novella ‘The Little Prince’.
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Regina Spektor – Uh-Merica
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[Verse 1] / Mrs. E. Roosevelt never heard me shoot my gun / Mrs. E. Roosevelt didn't even know I owned one / Somewhere between the cobblestone floor and the slated wooden ceiling
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The Beatles – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
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Written and sung by George Harrison, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” is considered one of the Beatles' masterpieces.
Rolling Stone ranked it #10 in their “100 Best Beatles Songs
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Nina Simone – Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
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One of the songwriters, Horace Ott, who is not listed in the credits, recalls how this song came about:
We (pointing to his wife – whose maiden name was Gloria Caldwell) had a bit
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Lin-Manuel Miranda & Leslie Odom, Jr. – Dear Theodosia
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Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton both had children very soon after the Revolutionary War. Here they take a moment to coo, and to realize the human element of the country they are
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