Regina Spektor- Musicbox

Just The Song, Cause most of the videos on here are live recordings.. i love this song :)

LYRICS:

Life inside the music box aint easy.
The malots hit the gears are always turning
and everyone inside the mechanism
is yearning to get out.
And sing another melody completely
So different from the one theyre always singing
I close my eyes and think that i have found me
but then i feel mortality surround me.
I want to sing another melody
so different from the one i always sing
But when i do the dishes
i run the water very very very hot
and then i fill the sink to the top with bubbles of soap
and then i send all the bottle caps i own a float
and its the greatest voyage in the history of plastic
and then i slip my hands in and start to make waves
and then i dip my tongue in and take a taste
it tastes like soap but it doesnt really taste like soap
and then i lower in my hole mouth in and take a gulp
and start to feel mortality surround me
i close my eyes and think ive found me
but life inside the music box aint easy
the malots hit the gears are always turning
and everyone inside the mechanism
is yearning
to get out
and sing another melody completely
is yearing
to get out
is yearning
to get out
is yearning
to get out

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• Musicbox

[aliceallyalice]

On the outside it sounds like a silly/random song, but it's actually about suicide if you listen closely. The music box is the monotony of life and everyone wants to get out. When she says "I lower in my whole mouth and take a gulp, and start to..." it sounds like she's gonna say "choke," but instead she says "feel mortality surround me." (dying) Then at the "mechanism" and "completely" she makes those choking sounds. It's brilliant but depressing.

[SunshineLoliepop]

@moonpearl1a It's not random. The song parallels tradition, conformist societal expectations (the music box) with the only expression of creativity the narrator can make: her childish suicide (which she commits while performing a traditional role--washing the dishes).

[UkeFoxx]

@danceergiirl Them's fightin' words.

Your taste in music is the only thing pathetic here.

[sierraSEX]

hahahahaha. regina and i would be awesome friends. she's so funny.

[atomicmelonade]

It's official... I'm gay for Regina Spektor.

[rainbowpaint13]

@MrBahhh31 Maybe on the surface.

[somekid57]

omg i never got that.



[MrBahhh31]

a three year old could write this

[llldariolll]

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuck ya i fuck with that soap foo

[oasisvalley]

bestt regina spektor song.

[wizardzlover2000]

i love this song!!!!

[Offended83Shadow]

The song is about whatever you feel it is about. YES it is random. A random happy song with very morbid innuendo.Like Happy phantom by tori amos. When i listen, i hear someone on the verge of a breakdown trying to find a meaning in life but longing to die. You may hear something entirely different.