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How is this song not more famous?! An all-time favorite....

What an intelligent theme for a song. Admirable.

this song is fucking GENIUS

This is beautiful, incredibly so. It's disturbing, gross and slightly melancholic roots just...somehow ADD instead of detracting. The simple way she gets her message across, yet exquisitely complicated, the way she captures the human essence...*sigh* I love Regina Spektor

CantThinkOfANickName 2 weeks ago

reGENIUS

evaelinetheninja 3 weeks ago

beautiful <3

iura722 3 weeks ago

why dont people watch her that much because i mean only 58,207 people watched this and probably the majority of them are most likly people who come back and watch it 5 times a day.

beholder127 3 weeks ago

The idea behind the song is an old urban legend passed between the single male community: it's told that if you hold your breath underwater while you masturbate, your orgasm will be twice as good. Pretty much the same concept behind auto-erotic asphyxiation. That's why there's laughter about the lake, and why it's like porridge. Genius dies.The "genius next door" being what dudes called the guy that figured it out.

Incidentally, he goes too far and drowns in the middle of the lake. Kinda gross

BizarreJellyChat 1 month ago 11

@BizarreJellyChat While gross, there is something breathtakingly beautiful about dying that way. Sexual gratification, especially without a partner, is such a vulnerable state of mind. It reminds me of how the French word for orgasm is "la petite-mort" or literally "the little death". The hint at sexuality makes this so much more unique and devastating.

EvanesceExotica 2 weeks ago

@BizarreJellyChat Gracias por la explicación :DD

OpethNyu 1 day ago

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seamouse007 1 month ago

Anyone who can create a song like this is extraordinary.

Marisisissa 1 month ago

The genius doesn't kill himself; he decides not to. The main message of the song for me is "Think it through" whatever it is.

amishnation 1 month ago

This song is solo amazingly beautiful....but then I looked up what the song meant. It so sad and kinda gross. But I still love the song

MsChris773 1 month ago

Some of my musical taste goes into the depths of techno, metal, and rock, but this song still never ceases to amaze me with its beauty

wilkcd9503 1 month ago 5

!~THE GENIUS NEXT D0:00R~!

javsda 1 month ago

This is a song about suicide.

ASDFGS17 1 month ago

Does anyone have any theories as to what this song is about? I'm curious to hear them.

TheTheatreGeek12 1 month ago

There needs to be a music video. I'm sooo curious as to what her incredible creativity would perceive a video representation as.

LambsOnLimber 2 months ago 3

Does she write her own songs or is there someone who writes it for her that she hired?

StaglKat 2 months ago

@StaglKat According to wikipedia, all the songs on the album were written by Regina.

kenyahp 2 months ago

This song is intoxicating. It really hit me hard.

This remind me of The River by Missy Higgins.

Both Missy and Regina are my favorite artists...

M00nta 2 months ago

This song is so beautiful , but sad at the same time.

BabyGirlGoddess 2 months ago

This song is absolutely beautiful. It's so angelic and peaceful. I can't get enough of her voice and her piano playing. *listening to it for the hundred-and-fifth time*

-Sigh- I'm pretty much in heaven. (That would make sense, seeing as how Regina Spektor is an angel, now wouldn't it?)

shadowcatluvver22 2 months ago

Getting high off of German fables.... :)

HippieRainbowLand 2 months ago

@HippieRainbowLand i do that every day. German fables are the best of drugs

foxcaty 2 months ago

whoever disliked this, i didn't know they gave you access to computers at mental institutions...?

MrNinjaHedgehog 2 months ago

this song is amazaballs, like whoa :Q

XpikoXtheXawesomeX 2 months ago

sup maggie its deven love your vids

dstoudenmire007 3 months ago

this would be a great song for a jimmy neutron video.... jusssssssssssss sayin

unforgettable903 3 months ago

@unforgettable903 Hahaha this comment made my day (:

Mikask8 3 months ago

Beautiful Piano play and voice but the lyrics don't make any sense.

DrManceni 3 months ago

@DrManceni They do, you just have to re-read the lyrics a few times and think over what the song means to you. Like when I listen to this song I think that the "genius" was probably a kid everyone made fun of and he eventually committed to suicide by drowning himself in the lake or "porridge" and even though he's gone, life still went on without him hence the "garbagemen emptying dumpster, ect.". I have heard many interpretations , it depends on the listener and what they think ^_^

artemis602 3 months ago

@artemis602 Oh I see, didn't think of it that way, but still I like this song very much, so I guess her other songs are sort of poetic as well? :)

DrManceni 2 months ago

I found this song cuz of VladXDanny Video WHOOO!

LoveDannyPhantom4eve 3 months ago

Regina Spektor's music is memorizing. I could listen to it all day and still be curious about where such genius comes from.

jellyrcw12 5 months ago 7

This song is absolutely incredible. Haunting too.

ColinJackson69 6 months ago 10

I recently went on a 4 hour car ride with my step-brother. We listened to Regina nearly the whole way. We hardly spoke aloud, but we made a connection. Regina made us a lot closer as siblings. Thx Regina :) my step-brother is really cool I now see.

QueenAwesomenes 6 months ago 15

This song is the epitome of beautiful.

jaymesandtunic 7 months ago

I almost cried when i first heard this song

<3

Averyluckypenny 7 months ago 4

0 No me gusta

arielsss1 7 months ago

Goosebumps..

BayumGirl123 7 months ago 6

Regenius.

bubblytar 8 months ago 20

4:09-4:29 = WOW... so beautiful...

emil1203 8 months ago 5

i'm not sure if i'm correct, but it sounds like the genius commits suicide in the lake. it is his secret... in the chorus it's like she's telling him to hold in his breath until he comes back out of the water in full. instead, i guess he lets it go and dies. she thinks he is a foolish child.

jonny2305 9 months ago