Forgive me...
So I downloaded a bit of Regina Spektor a while ago thinking I'd hate it. There were a few good songs, comparitive hits. I didn't really get it though... But this song came on my iPod the other day and I think it's one of the most powerful things I've heard in any of her songs. I just see this teacher, loosing it, trying not to get upset in front of kids. I mean, when you hear it, it's different, she does great vocal characters. But, like... It's the idea of trying to teach kids something like this - how would you ever go about it... And that no kind of learning can prepare you for hurting someone you love so badly... And asking for forgivness... And maybe I get to thinking about being in an impossible, unfixable situation I found myself in recently. I can't figure out if the first part is sung to another person or to herself - but the change in place and space is so sudden, the second stime she sings "Let's go to the movies," it sounds as though she's trying to fix or change or ignore a situation, and that it just won't work, then, suddenly, you're in a class room, not in this distant memory of being happy with someone in the beginning and... Anyway... Clever, wry, simple, vulnerable... It's just a great song

Loveology:

Oh, an incurable humanist you are
Oh, an incurable humanist you are...

Let's go to the movies, I will hum you a song about nothing at all
Let's go to the movies, I will hum you a song about nothing at all,
Let's go to the movies, let's go...
Nothing at all, Nothing at all, Nothing at all, Nothing at all.

Oh, an incurable humanist you are
Oh, an incurable humanist you are...

Let's go to the movies, I will hum you a song about nothing at all
Let's go to the movies, I will hum you a song about nothing at all,
Let's go to the movies, let's go...
Nothing at all, Nothing at all, Nothing at all, Nothing at all.

Sit down class, open up your textbooks to page 42:

Porcupine-ology, antler-ology, car-ology, bus-ology, train-ology, plane-ology, mama-ology, papa-ology,you-ology, me-ology, love-ology, kiss-ology, stay-ology, please-ology...

Let's study class, let's study class. Sit down.

Love-ology, love-ology, I'm sorry-ology, forgive me-ology, love-ology, love-ology, I'm sorry-ology, forgive me-ology, love-ology, Love-ology...

Let's study class, let's study class.

Love-ology. Let's study class, sit down.

Love-ology, love-ology, I'm sorry-ology, forgive me-ology
Love-ology, love-ology. I'm sorry-ology, forgive me-ology,
Love-ology, Love-ology. Love-ology, Love-ology, Love-ology, Love-ology...

Oh, an incurable humanist you are (x3)
Oh, forgive me, Oh, forgive me, Oh.
Forgive me, forgive me, forgive me-ology,
Forgive me, forgive me, forgive me-ology,
Forgive me, forgive me, forgive me-ology,
Forgive me, forgive me, forgive me-ology...