Better
Healing Kiss: Exploring the Depths of Emotion in Regina Spektor's 'Better'
Lyrics
If I kiss you where it's sore
Offering comfort or healing by kissing a sore spot.
If I kiss you where it's sore
Repetition for emphasis on offering comfort.
Will you feel better, better, better?
Asking if the act of comfort will lead to feeling better.
Will you feel anything at all?
Questioning if any sensation will be felt at all.
Will you feel better, better, better?
Reiterating the hope for improvement through comfort.
Will you feel anything at all?
Repeating the doubt about feeling anything.
Born like sisters to this world
Highlighting a close bond but in a place where family connections are not strong.
In a town where blood ties are only blood
Describing a location where familial relationships are not defining.
If you never say your name out loud to anyone
Suggesting anonymity to avoid being labeled or defined by others.
They can never ever call you by it
Explaining how anonymity prevents others from defining one's identity.
If I kiss you where it's sore
Repeating the offering of comfort to alleviate pain.
If I kiss you where it's sore
Reiterating the attempt to comfort.
Will you feel better, better, better?
Asking if this comfort will lead to improvement.
Will you feel anything at all?
Questioning the potential for any feeling to arise.
Will you feel better, better, better?
Reiterating the hope for improvement through comfort.
Will you feel anything at all?
Repeating the doubt about feeling anything.
You're getting sadder, getting sadder, getting sadder, getting sadder
Observing increasing sadness in someone.
And I don't understand, and I don't understand
Expressing confusion or lack of understanding about the sadness.
But if I kiss you where it's sore
Continuing the offer of comfort despite not understanding the cause.
If I kiss you where it's sore
Reiterating the attempt to comfort despite not comprehending the reason.
Will you feel better, better, better?
Asking if this repeated comfort will lead to improvement.
Will you feel anything at all?
Questioning the potential for any sensation.
Will you feel better, better, better?
Reiterating the hope for improvement through comfort.
Will you feel anything at all
Repeating the doubt about feeling anything.
Will you feel anything at all
Repetitive questioning if any feeling will emerge, emphasizing uncertainty.
Anything at all?
-Will you feel anything at all
-Anything at all?
-Will you feel anything at all
-Anything at all?
-Will you feel anything at all
-Anything at all?
-Will you feel anything at all
Final questioning of whether any sensation will arise.
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