Regina Spektor - Genius Next Door

Genius Next Door
Artist: Regina Spektor
Album: Far

Lyrics

Some said the local lake had been enchanted
Others said it must have been the weather
The neighbors were trying to keep it quiet
But I swear that I could hear the laughter
So they joke, and they nicknamed it "the porridge"
Cause over night that lake had turned as thick as butter

But the local kids would still go swimming, drinking
Saying that to them it doesn't matter

If you just hold in your breath
'Til you come back up in full
Hold in your breath
'Til you've thought it through
You fool

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

If you just hold in your breath
'Til you come back up in full
Hold in your breath
'Til you thought it through
You foolish child

In the morning the film crews start arriving
With donuts, coffee and reporters
The kids were waking up, hung over
The neighbors were starting up their cars
The garbageman were emptying the dumpsters
Atheists were praying full of sarcasm
And the genius next door was sleeping
Dreaming that the antidote is orgasm

If you just hold in your breath
'Til you come back up in full
Hold in your breath
'Til you thought it through
You foolish child

Category:

Music

Tags:

• regina
• spektor
• genius
• next
• door
• lyrics
• far

[TheShyRebelliousGrl]

the beauty of the piano + regina's voice= angelic melody?

[xXRETROINDIEBABEXx]

One of my favorite songs!

[OpethNyu]

@BizarreJellyChat Gracias por la explicación :DD

[jackinthebox908]

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

[Meagan820]

What an intelligent theme for a song. Admirable.

[MysticalPopTart]

this song is fucking GENIUS

[CantThinkOfANickName]

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

[EvanesceExotica]

@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.

[evaelinetheninja]

reGENIUS

[iura722]

beautiful <3

[beholder127]

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.

[BizarreJellyChat]

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