regina spektor - Chicken Song (Demo)
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- regina spektor - Chicken Song (Demo)
Recorded: 1999 Demo
Lyrics:
Stop jerkin off, and eat your chicken baby
It's like a colony of hungry ants down here
So I keep dancing with this deadweight round my ankles
And it thickens every time I turn away
There's something spartan in the way we choose our battles
There's something spartan in the way we cast our stones
It takes a bit more than a kiss for the princess to awaken
And a bit less than a f**k for her to stay awake
So dont go away
Be my view for today
I just wanna see something lovely as I look outside my window it's
It's like a system here
Another day, another year
Another joke, another beer
And I'm sleeping through
Stop jerkin off, and eat your chicken baby
It's a free country
We can be elitist if we want
They say if we phrase it right
They'll eat it off our fingers
And if we don't well then they won't
The astrologers look at a sky and point their fingers
And the philosphers look down at us and point their toes
Is it the way we close our eyes?
Is it our hair?
Is it the breathmints?
You know we speculate
But in the end do we really know?
So don't go away
Be my view for today
I just wanna see something lovely as I look outside my window, it's
It's like a system here
Another day, another year
Another joke, another beer
And I'm sleeping through
(lots of ahs and oooooos)
Stop stop stop stop .........
Stop jerkin off, and eat your chicken baby
Its like a colony of hungry ants down here
Please visit www.reginaspektor.com
She is just everything beautiful about art, all at once.
The first song on her demo, and still among her best. So sad this one didn't make it onto 11:11. I wish she'd rerelease it.
Just wanted to add - I also recently realized that the title, "Chicken Song", is likely a play off of the metaphorical phrase "swan song" (a final gesture, effort, or performance given just before death or retirement).
The narrator in this song isn't as graceful as a swan, so instead, this is their chicken song.
God, I played this CD-R so many times in the Purchase dorms. This and Hounds of Whoop Ass
It makes no sense to me how she sounds older here, yet she recorded this song when she was 19.
She sounds like Christina Aguilera, so surreal that her voice sounds more 'grown up' than it does now. I can see why she changed it though, if it was a concious choice.
I honestly prefer how she sounds here than now. I'm still a giant fan, but she sounds so soulful here compared to what we saw from the cheap seats and far. I also like the Kind've bluesy aesthetic to her old songs and her voice in them.
+Jackson Catlett Agreed. I like all of her music but I definitely find myself coming back to this sort of stuff rather than the more produced stuff.
She sounds like people sounded in the ninties. When I hear this, it reminds me of Fiona Apple and that type of artist, sounds like she's beautifully contorting her voice to get a folksy sound. She also ran way more in this time frame than she does now. I don't necessarily compare to see which version of Spektor is better. It's like comparing oranges and apple. They are both fruit but different and good in their own way.
Relationship wisdom so subtly and accurately sung.
My jam!
She sounds like Ani DiFranco
i thought she said dead waiter. lol