Regina Spektor can write some amazing songs! "The Calculation" has this budding beat, and the piano playing is just great; this son just makes one want to dance and smile just read these lyrics:"So we made our own computer out of macaroni pieces/And it did our thinking while we lived our lives/It counted up our feelings/And divided them up even/And it called that calculation perfect love" She also a great voice, one without needing any aid. The next song "Eet" is about finding yourself because "you spent half your whole life falling behind/listening to headphones to drown out your mind/It was so easy, and the words so sweet." Or how life passes by as you listen to music, you don't experience that time as you're listening to music, because you are caught halfway in living and part in paying attention to the music. The instrumentals and vocals are great. "Blue Lips" is about a person who feels as if he has come from another planet of blue, as he has stumbled into faith, but this planet has this nice backbeat and easy waves of piano.Here is a sample:"He stumbled into faith and thought/'God, this is all there is?'/The pictures in his mind arose/And began to breathe." "Folding chair" is very upbeat, and has a pretty quick pace it's very head bobby and has plentya positive vibes. "Machine" is awesome! It has this killer beat and synergy between the beat and the piano is epic! The vocal delivery is great and changes when appropriate: most of the time they are sung in her beautiful voice, but when she sings "I'm hooked into, hooked into" and the several refrains of "hooked into machine"following immediately after has her delivery sounding mechanical. "Laughing With" is about how most people ignore God unless they need something or after something bad happens to them, because it mentions how no one laughs at God at several life-altering or tragic instances such as in a hospital, war, child did not come home from a party and it's late,etc "But God can be funny/At a cocktail party while listening to a good God-themed joke or.../Or when the crazies say he hates us/And they get so red in the head/You think that they're about to choke/God can be funny/When told he'll give you money if you just pray the right way/And when presented like a genie/Who does magic like Houdini/Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus" Yes, the lyrics are sad but true which makes it more thought-provoking, but is this song pushing her beliefs on those that believe in other faiths or nothing at all? Or is it just simple commentary, because there are those that believe whole-heartedly in God, and those that say that they're of the faith but one couldn't tell by what they do to others. "Human of the Year" is another great song about someone who has won an amazing award and what happens after that recog. "Two Birds" is very upbeat with lovely harmonies and melodies, some nice horn: "Two birds of a feather/Say that they're always gonna stay together/But one's never going to let go of that wire/He says that he will/But he's just a liar." "Dance Anthem of the 80's" just showcases her amazing voice, all of her songs do, and she does this arpeggiating vocal display. Not sure if that's what i mean to say, but it's kind of like what Mariah Carey does, but better."The boys and girls watch each other eat/When they really just wanna watch each other/Sleep/They want to watch, to watch each other/Sleep, sleep, sleep." "Genius Next Door" is a lot more somber toned, and is about someone who discovers that the lake is enchanted, and the person is a secret genius, but is ignored. The lyrics just explain it better than I can; here is a sample "The genius next door was bussing tables/Wiping clean the keptchup bottle labels/Getting high and mumbling German fables/Didn't care as long as he was able/To strip his clothes off by the dumpsters/At night while every one was sleeping/And wade midway into that porridge/Just him and the secret he was keeping." An ode to a wallet and how little is in it, with nothing but an old stick of juicy fruit, pics, and a blockbuster card? Lost is this wallet, but take it to the rental store and track the number to call the lost soul who seems to be reeling. "Wallet" is great, one would think that contents of a wallet or talking about one could not be poetic, but Spektor makes it so. "one more time with feeling/try it again, breathing's just a rhythm/say it in your mind until you know that the words are right/this is why we fight" are some of the best lyrics in the song "One More Time With Feeling" which has great instrumentals and vocals, as always. "Man of A Thousand Faces" can be about a lost love, lost in reality and memory; maybe the moon is the woman he knows, because it mentions that he goes to a place of no religion and that the moon was a stranger to him. Lost love leads to lost faith, and the moon could be the faith he does not recognize; "And now he sits down at a table/Without anyone's steady instruction/Begins his quiet ascension/To a place of no religion." "Time is all around" is a track not on the standard album but is worthy of inclusion because of the lyrics and instrumentals, and sentiments: "Time is all around/Except inside my clock/Everyone is waiting for their lover to unlock." Live and die by "The Sword & Pen"; "I don't wanna live without you/I don't wanna live without you," but "What if the sword kills the pen?/What if the god kills the man?/And if he does it with love/Well then it's death from above/And death from above is still a death." Also not included on the standard album,but for those lyrics alone should be included. All of the Songs a are really great, but I will reveal my favorites of the bunch in Best Songs: The Calculation, Eet, Blue lips, Folding Chair, Machine, Laughing With, Human of the Year,Genius Next Door,Wallet,One More Time With Feeling,Time is All Around and The Sword and Pen.
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