Hold on! One more time with feeling...

Jordan doesn't like Regina Spektor. (Not a huge surprise--he dislikes most of the music that I like.) The last time I had her playing through my speakers, he said something along the lines of "she sounds like a cat screaming." Okay, sometimes she gets a little wild with her vocalizing...I won't argue that. Some of her songs are a bit too experimental for my liking. But, generally, I adore her. I'm in love with this song--One More Time with Feeling--off her most recent album. Something about it makes me tear up when I listen to it...the sadness of the verses contrasted with the hope of the chorus...it's fabulous. Listen to it sometime.

Your stitches are all out
But your scars are healing wrong
The helium balloon inside your room has come undone
And it's pushing up at the ceiling
And the flickering lights it cannot get beyond

Everyone takes turns
Now it's yours to play the part
And they're sitting all around you
Holding copies of your chart
And the misery inside their eyes is
Synchronized and reflecting into yours

Hold on!
One more time with feeling
Try it again, breathing's just a rhythm
Say it in your mind until you know that the words are right
This is why we fight

You thought by now you'd be
So much better than you are
You thought by now they'd see
That you have come so far

And the pride inside their eyes
Would synchronize into a love you've never known
So much more than you've been show

Hold on!
One more time with feeling
Try it again, breathing's just a rhythm
Say it in your mind until you know that the
Words are right

This is why we fight
This is why we fight