Spektor, Regina - Machine Lyrics

i can't help but feel this would make a great amv. it doesn't suit anything i've seen but i just know there's something this would be perfect for. you know?

This song is dope

This song actually has a deep meaning in it. Read if you want, I'll try to make it as short as I can...
Song Meaning: There is a girl who was captured by the military/government. They are put in a machine to work for the government/military and she is "blessed". She cries in agony everyday and she wishes to be released. She is supposedly given super human powers and wisdom. She is slowly dying inside the machine and wants to break free.
(This is not 100% true, I just thought of this after listening to this song a lot.)

There is a creepy voice at 3:20

My older sister made choreography to this song for the dance studio she’s in can dance to it! It was for the younger dancers! The song was stuck in my head, and while listening to “Two Birds On A Wire” this was in my recommendations! Had no clue it was by the same artist! This keeps on happening! I love a bunch of songs but have no idea they are from the same artist!

very strong lyrics.

shes my new Kate Bush

I can't listen to this without crying bc of Psiioniic

mediocre_mituna :o(

what happend to Psiioniic

Iron Man song? :O

Turing test.

Me, to me: Don't do it
My SCP weeb ass, immediately: Church of the Broken God

scp 882

The only god is SCP-173 also known as THE NUT

this makes me think about evil morty lmao

This song gives me Black Mirror vibes

I mean.. I _know_ this song is almost certainly not about it, as the song came out verifiably before this, but everyone else on YouTube does this with whatever series they think, sooooo.....


...Is anyone else reminded of Romantically Apocalyptic?

супер

Am I the only one who thinks of Burt Kreischer every single time?

Bless you for uploading so much Regina Spektor, honestly. It was thanks to your channel that I was able to discover song after song, and get completely hooked onto her music. Now she's my favourite musician!! So thank you <3

this is by far my favorite song by Regina :3 I have some judgements on her newest album, but that's just me. #reginaspektorislife

She has the voice of a piano

The song is really, really great!
But... It gives me the creeps... Only me?

CrazyFantasyCat Supposed to be crepy, the beauty is deceptive

it's supposed to give you the creeps

two birds on a wire, wrong song

Huh, that's a funny way to spell Rowboats...

(but in all seriousness, yeah, it sounds a lot like that song)
(and Genius Next Door)

i have thus album

This song and "The Sword and the Pen" sound alike.

J'adore les mélodies toutes simples du piano... Et sa voix, woua!

I'm pretty sure this song is about Russia's government.

@Dorie Bixby That is literally the reason I listen to this song.

Hey look a Psiioniic song

Yes yes yes YES! Except sad because holy fuck is it actually possible to have had a shittier life than he did?

Love him though. And you. :).

Why would you say these things

Who is Hal, that covered this?

Yet in lieu of the epilogues...

not to be a homestuck in 2019 but honestly i always saw this as a jane song

What album is this on?

Far. The album cover is the beginning of the video. 

this is our colorguards indoor show this year! :D love this song so much

I agree this sounds cool at the 1.5 speed :P

This is in our show for a indoor marching percussion group I'm apart of and I have her singing in my part so my instructed told me to get this song stuck in my head. It's now on repeat

@Rosi Moone I played glockenspiel (aka bell set) and chimes

@Savanna Perry Nice! I (sadly) have never had the honour of playing a Regina Spektor song, but I play double bass/piano/flute. In my experience, the percussionists are always the best part of the band. 

@Rosi Moone I also play trumpet, but percussion in my band always have amazing parts. They're so much fun to play

My marching band were thinking of doing mechanical/ AI for next years show, does the song work nicely?

https://youtu.be/SD68CQdPMzY

It sounds really cool at the 1.5 speed.

it does!

1.25 is better, though...

in any other song I think the gaps and artifacting from compression would mess with how it sounds but I think this one sounds pretty good at half speed, actually.

Ohh. FUCK. I did this at 1:25, once I hit 1:40 I was v satisfied with the choice of .5 speed

1.5 is great too, but .5 really nails the theme of this song perfectly, holy damn

.5 speed sounds crazy lol

Yes! I love this song! The perfect mix of Chopin, Berlioz and Joni Mitchell.

anybody else want to hear Steam Powered Giraffe cover this?

ANOTHER SPG FAN THAT IS NOT ON THEIR CHANEL YES!!!!!!!

ash ! OMG AN SPG FAN THIS IS SO RARE (lol sorry for being really late to reply)

I logged in just to give you guys upvotes cuz yessssss SPG is such unique and much neat

what's this song about? is there something more to it?

@LapisGarter What does sept-jointed mean? I have no idea xD Love Reg and her songs c:

@Lafilleici haha not even close. Google it, you'll probably like it. It's a game. I love it!!

I wish I'll find a girl that is at least for even the tiniest bit like Regina, that would really make me the happiest person alive :)

First chord and I fell in love with this song.

@podperson13 you lose sir.

@darkone117 nah, they're just stupid. Her voice is powerfull enough to be heard by even those who have no ears - after all she is God x

@lVlusicLover Don't worry, they don't exist.

it reminds me of dystopian novels, like brave new world.

@podperson13 sept: seven times

It´s like Gary Numan would have written this song
Trent Reznor made the electronic arrangements

But it's just Regina after all, she made this masterpiece all by herself

regina will be blessed for eternity for being so .... evrerything you want her to be:):):)

I believe this song really comments on the life that most of us (including myself) leads. For example, on the bus today, more than half of the people riding were listening to their iPods, playing with their phones which are connected to the internet. Everywhere we go- we are connected. "I collect my moments/ into a correspondence/ with a mightier power/ who just lacks my perspectives/ and who lacks my organics" sounds like a blog too me.

I believe this song really comments on the life that most of us (including myself) leads. For example, on the bus today, more than half of the people riding were listening to their iPods, playing with their phones which are connected to the internet. Everywhere we go- we are connected. "I collect my moments/ into a correspondence/ with a mightier power/ who just lacks my perspectives/ and who lacks my organics" sounds like a blog too me.

somebody has to make a music video to this thing... i was imagining something along the lines of a flash-like dirty looking world view of a robot-thingy like the song describes trying to understand it's environment both from his pov and the storytellers... and/or a typography of the lyrics... (the ideas don't really collide :P)
i bow down to anyone getting this idea and worshiping anyone who's actually willing to do it (omgomgomg!!) so.. yeah

hey guys check out the version PURPOSEFUL PORPOISE did, with a guitar track added in!

The refrain sounds really really like Marina and the Diamonds!
But still totally different...
And I love them both! <3

@podperson13 you got owned!

DrAldobaglio: I listened to both of their first 30 seconds and they're not similar at all. "The Flowers" and "Us" on the other hand, have almost identical music. "the flowers" is all piano, while "us" is piano+violin and it's a bit more flowery, but the music is pretty much the same. Even they start to diverge at about 49 seconds though. And it doesn't matter because the singing is very different.

We used this song in our show choir performance this year and I'm so glad we stayed true to it! Gotta love Regina!

Listen, I love Regina and pretty much all of her music. But I have to call her out. This sounds verrrry similar to Apres Moi....

See for yourself.

Why do Regina Spektor songs have to end?!

Great choice of image to go with the song. Unless it was already provided? xD

sounds like Bjork

when she says hooked into machine she sounds really russian

they use this song in the o'fallon, IL state competition for show choir. no wonder they picked this song...its amazing

I have yet to find a bad Regina Spektor song... never will, never want to.

@rainbowmedley When I saw the movie 9 I couldn't get this song out of my head.

is this about the tommyknockers?

They should make Robin Wasserman's Skinned series into movies just so that they can use this song.

Amazing...a beautiful composite that possibility contains elements of Bjork and possibly some klezmer, but Regina at the core

you can really hear her accent in this song

my favourite song in "FAR" :-*

love this song so much, the lyrics really bring 1984 and the Matrix to mind. fight the machine people. Big Brother hasn't taken power yet but he will if we keep relinquishing our freedoms and suppressing our individuality.

@AmmyWDWCP look up the song sleep isabella by abney park they are a good steam punk band.

would love to see a fan vid of this to scenes from Metropolis!

I LOVE this song. Most of her songs are all go-happy and whatnot(not that that's a bad thing (: ).. this song is different, it sounds like, sinister. That's one of the reasons I love it, it's different from what she usually sings and still sounds amazing.

@LuckyNinja11 lol im glad im not the only one who gets the stampunk vibe:D

@podperson13 it is sept. you can hear her articulate the t. and it makes sense if shes mechanical and its her hands where there are many joints to begin with

The only thing better then this song is watching her do it live. 'Hooked in to Machine'. What a weird, strange, and wonderful song! From a weird,strange and wonderful woman.

@podperson13

"Sept" is pretty much the prefix for "seven." Being "double-jointed" means that you can bend your joint in two different directions, such as bending your arm close to you and then bending it on the same elbow joint in the other direction. No one is double-jointed by the way, but since this is referring to a machine it means the machine can bend a joint in seven different directions--did that make sense?

It almost sounds like a song about blogging and tech-geeks "part of composite", the internet.

@philoveritas I'm pretty sure this song is actually written about the present and the near future.

this is a legit song.

She's clearly saying SepTTT jointed. If you listen.

I like the fact that Regina's different albums are so varied and yet the songs inside are always specifically themed. While I find it hard to appreciate all her music (Im only human and Ive got tastes), I can certainly appreciate that she goes out there and experiments. She is certainly unique :P Go Regina!

@LapisGarter it is sept jointed. it means seven jointed. like how people say double jointed.

matrix anyone!?

this song reminds me of steampunk

Intense soooong!

@podperson13 sub-jointed doesn't make any sense.

this one's kind of weird and kind of creepy and has that undertone that's sort of... but...i find the the way she says 'hooked' really...annoying! sorry...but i still love her!

This is a really awesome song but it is kinda creepy. I really like it though

This song is all about THE PRESENT! Have sense and is awesome, its ironic and is a little weird but I cant stop hearing it

@LapisGarter i was reading an article in school about this song and it had lyrics and music and the lyrics were sub-jointed

my hands are sub-jointed* not sept

Kinda creepy but cool

we are doing this paper in school and its like "what musical elements make the song sound futuristic?" and "what words would be used to describe life in the future?" argh. personally, i think the song is kinda creepy, but its ok.

Never heard of her until she was on Jimmy Fallon recently. Her performance of this song was chilling. I watched it a few times a day until hulu took it down. Great live performance. Sometimes Jimmy comes out and shakes the bands hand but with Regina he yelled "Yeah!!" when it was over and shook her hand while saying, "Thank you thank you thank you" She knocked it out of the park with that performance. "And the future is here. It's bright. It's NOW." The way she sang it. Tears formed. I love her.

Has anyone seen the footage of her doing this live in Paris Bataclan. She hits that piano like Beethoven. Gives me goosebumps everytime.

kind of catchy. i really like this song! great work 'cause i have the feeling that a machine is telling the story. awesome music and awesome singing ;)

Haunting ♥