My mother had breast cancer when I was very young. I've been a fan of Regina for three years, and just yesterday my mom showed me this song. She said "this is what I felt when I found out. I didn't want to do chemotherapy because I thought I'd die anyway." She's been in remission for seven years. Always have hope. Regina gave me hope.
Your comment touched me. My aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer 4 years ago, had full mastectomies and reconstruction, the cancer came back and she did radiation, and now it's come back and spread to her liver and back. We're hopeful for a miracle like your Momma. I hope she goes in for regular testing, because that shit doesn't play around! Prayers to you and your family.
She's one of the few great songwriters in this generation. She has that rare gift of being able to write a song that is both a great story, and has a catchy hook.
Sabre Agreed; I'm not the type who wants to track down and meet people or anything, but if there were one musician I would like to meet IRL it would be her. I wouldn't say she's the greatest musician ever or anything, but she never backs down from a chance to do something unheard-of ... to mixed, but sometimes glorious results. Chemo Limo probably isn't her best, good experiment but I see why she doesn't do stuff in this lane anymore. My favorites are Ode to Divorce, Samson, and Firewood.
My dad had me listen to this song about two or so years ago. He was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in 2005 and fought hard for seven years. He unfortunately lost the battle on Thanksgiving, but everytime I hear this song, I can think of how he lived his life to the absolute fullest. Never took a day for granted.
It's basically a metaphor for passing on. She's dying from cancer, and she's seeing her mom's face in her child. Apparently that's a common experience near death.
Okay. This song hits way too close to home it's almost eerie. My great aunt's name was Barbara. She died of breast cancer, and we couldn't afford chemo for her - not to mention she would always talk about living larger than life with a limo and how she would go to vegas. I
Joy Thevision Not all songs are happy because not all of the world is happy, I don't know what in Chemo Limo made you think that it would be happy, it's still an exceptional song.
I love this song so much and i try to play it in piano but i cant because is hard to coordinate de piano with The voice in this and also because i always get a lump in my throat. So beautiful!
+Anoni Maus she is talking about the 100$ bill. "Benjamin franklin came over and babysat all four of my kids" means she paid big bucks for a baby sitter.
I kinda got the vibe that she was referring to the 100$ dollar bill and how you can replace a mothers love with any amount of money (since the mother obviously dies from cancer in the song)
YES! I found out a couple weeks ago and was so shocked. I think she put on her facebook that for privacy reasons she wouldn't post any pictures or anything. I wonder if he looks like her!
Hell yeah, thanks for that. I thought I was going crazy listening some small little differences. I wonder where the uploader found this, it's clearly another take.
I was thinking the same thing! I hadn't listened in a while, but I felt like I knew this song particularly well and I couldn't figure how I'd forget 'lil bits.
This one of my favorites, listen to it daily, but this version is less polished and one of the differences that made my heart drop was the amount of emotion put in the phrase "oh my god" in the Barbara part, makes it even realer
Has always been my FAV Regina Specktor song. Can relate to it in my life so much 2nd being " Somewhere Over the Rainbow" because it reminds of the old days being happy when I was a kid. Great memories.
I don't know which of my kids will get this. The one who looks like me? The one who acts like me? The one I least expected? It scares me everyday. Never does a day pass when one of my children will float that thought through my head with the simplest of looks or a gesture. I'm glad Regina gets it enough to sing about it and you at least get it enough to explain it. Sometimes it feels no one sees the things I struggle with, not just being sick but also the mental weight that that carries.
I heard someone singing this song in a dream i had last night, and i sung along and then we smiled at each other and went "nice, we both like the same music"
I'm crying. This is such a sad yet beautiful song. It so strong. I can't even come up with proper words to describe this. It's heartbreakingly perfect.
This song hits different from when I first hear it before my mom got sick. It is amazing how little doctors help when it is fatal and you can't try for surgery. All of the years of my mom being nurse ended up being worth nothing for the hospice care she got.
regina is amazing there's a poetry to her music that you rarely see anymore.i know everyone has their own interpretation of this song, regina loves to do that to us, keeping us guessing with all the different meanings to her lyrics but to me this song is:
the lyrics of her songs are so..amazing and full of emotion that when i hear them i feel proud to speak english and its not many songs or artists that i feel like that towards
Regina Spektor cannot be described in words. And whoever doesn't think she's totally and completely amazing shouldn't even be on here. She makes me happy. :)
I used to absolutely loathe this song. I loved a lot of her music at the time, but this one was just so confusing and different and strange. Today, it's one of my favorites of hers for all of those same exact reasons. Thanks, Regina.
I remember in like 2012 I used to play this game called Transformice, where you were a little mouse racing to get cheese and at one point you could upload songs to the game. So in between endless amounts of party rock by lmfao being put on by other players, I put on this song. A bunch of people hated it and were begging in the chat to turn it off, except for one other person who was like "hey this song is about someone with cancer you should listen to the lyrics, it's deep" or something like that. Shout out to the one other guy who also liked the song. Maybe I made someone a Regina fan that day, or at least that's what I like to think 😂
I like your interpretation. My interpretation was the mother with cancer is still alive, and as she takes them on a limo trip she comes to the sudden realization that she has to leave her four kids behind. It's such a sad song really, beautiful but sad.
@felicityeufy I know this is pretty unhelpful to you but songs like this are totally open to interpretation, and those interpretations reveal something about ourselves. So with that in mind: what do you think it means?
This song is so sad... but it makes me love my country and our socialized health care... no one has to die or leave their kids poor because they have a disease. Canada has Style!
@appleh26 but in the second verse she states " When I woke up My kids were being quiet I knew it was a dream right away I called the limousine company" So apperantly that part is a dream too. maybe shes drifting in and out of different dreams because of the chemo?
@katievhoneychurch Haha the chorus is the part I love most. I think Regina conceived the staccato because when you're near death you completely freak out and start thinking about a lot of randomness, next step is being stubborn and unpolite to anyone, then you come back thinking about the life you're losing (after chorus)
Im a 2 time cancer survivor n this song is amazing..but she was diagnosed with cancer, n shes dreaming about money and her insurance policys for her kids. She refuses chemo n is calling a limo to take the kids minds off it. She knows shes going to die.
This song is so sad. It reminds me of my cousin who died of childhood leukemia at the age of 8 and a half, 15 years ago. I don't remember much about him, but, then again, I don't remember much from my childhood. Now, I wish I had kept a diary back then. This song also reminds me of my Mom's best friend who died from breast cancer about 5-10 years ago. They are both greatly missed. I hope the cancer research scientists find a cure for cancer very soon.
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My mother had breast cancer when I was very young. I've been a fan of Regina for three years, and just yesterday my mom showed me this song. She said "this is what I felt when I found out. I didn't want to do chemotherapy because I thought I'd die anyway." She's been in remission for seven years. Always have hope. Regina gave me hope.
Your comment touched me. My aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer 4 years ago, had full mastectomies and reconstruction, the cancer came back and she did radiation, and now it's come back and spread to her liver and back. We're hopeful for a miracle like your Momma. I hope she goes in for regular testing, because that shit doesn't play around! Prayers to you and your family.
Bro. Same. My mom has past from non hodgkin's.
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I loved ur comment❤
Regina Spektor is a mastercraft of musical writing and performance, and is sorely under-appreciated.
She's one of the few great songwriters in this generation. She has that rare gift of being able to write a song that is both a great story, and has a catchy hook.
Thanks for the depression Regina. It's quality depression. That high class deep sadness.
Was different for me, i was depressed and song like this one help me a lot. Now im fine and i will always love Regina for that.
@@ramn_ That's the power of music. The power of Regina
Fuck you, fuck you ,you're cool.
She’s something ain’t she?🙆🏽♂️
Empathy has power
Love that her accent comes through on her songs. Very endearing and real.
Russian and New Yorkian! Very endearing indeed :)
BY ALL MEANS
This is a song that has zero shits to give about musical convention ... I'm kinda' into it.
Regina Spektor is probably one of the most unique musical artist's I've ever heard. She's so cool.
Sabre Agreed; I'm not the type who wants to track down and meet people or anything, but if there were one musician I would like to meet IRL it would be her. I wouldn't say she's the greatest musician ever or anything, but she never backs down from a chance to do something unheard-of ... to mixed, but sometimes glorious results. Chemo Limo probably isn't her best, good experiment but I see why she doesn't do stuff in this lane anymore. My favorites are Ode to Divorce, Samson, and Firewood.
+sabre Regina too and Amanda Palmer so far is on the top of unique scale i ve seen (but still seems i havn't seem much, there are so many artists)
I would disagree, as a young cancer survivor. This song touches me beyond anything. I am in my 2nd year of remission, still on medication.
kinda?!?!? this magnificent musical masterpiece is monumental!!!!!! haha see what I did there with all those M's? yay!
The bit that kills me is 'and Barbara, she looks just like my mom' :( :( :( *tries not to cry. Cries a lot*
Becci Johnson 💟
Somebody pointed out she's actually thinking of genetics being a cause for cancer in some cases.
That is so much worse to think about
as someone with cancer, this song touches me so much. I first heard it years ago, and it's just grown in meaning since then.
Hello, did you get better?
Wish you luck Sarah.
Sarah, how are you? Please take care
god bless your soul
I had it too - hope you're ok
Soviet Kitsch is definitely one of the top 10 albums of the 00s.
I totally agree
I love the no thank you part
Duck Overlord Same!
My dad had me listen to this song about two or so years ago. He was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in 2005 and fought hard for seven years. He unfortunately lost the battle on Thanksgiving, but everytime I hear this song, I can think of how he lived his life to the absolute fullest. Never took a day for granted.
Jacklyn gonna spill that tea and you know it.
I should not be allowed to make comments on TH-cam.
Damn jacklyn's shady asf
God dammit Jacklyn.
I'm more concerned about Barbara. She looks so much like my mom.
Benjamin Franklin was looking pretty crispy to me...
"My Barbara, she looks so much just like my mom." Tears every time and can't explain it AT ALL
You love your mom
Every God came time the floodgates open!!!
I know the reason but can't explain either
It's basically a metaphor for passing on. She's dying from cancer, and she's seeing her mom's face in her child. Apparently that's a common experience near death.
@Jacob Versace Perhaps. Also, she is sad she will never see Barbara grow up - she is probably the younguest
As a lyricist, Regi is one of the best there ever was. Her lyrics are clever, intense and so inspiring. I am so glad Regina Spektor exists
there is something so mystical, nostalgic and innocent about that piano line. Brilliant stuff. Like the Secret Garden (the book, not the movie)
Okay. This song hits way too close to home it's almost eerie. My great aunt's name was Barbara. She died of breast cancer, and we couldn't afford chemo for her - not to mention she would always talk about living larger than life with a limo and how she would go to vegas. I
Right in the feels every time. Can't listen to this without crying, so incredible and chilling
Ouch. this song hurts so much
This song really touches me. My grandmother died of lung cancer and my aunt is a survivor.
Update: my aunts no longer a survivor I guess. Touches me twice as hard now. She died just a little bit after I made this comment.
Joy Thevision Not all songs are happy because not all of the world is happy, I don't know what in Chemo Limo made you think that it would be happy, it's still an exceptional song.
I can't believe how deep this song is, such a masterpiece
she's not under appreciated when people like myself love her enough for everyone else
cute comment
I definitely love her enough to count for a couple hundred people.
Probably as close as it will get to my son and I seeing his mother again😎
This song is hauntingly surreal. And really, really, difficult to cover.
I'm so in love with your mind and your beauty, keep it up, you make me cry xxx
her music holds all of my emotions.
she is not just a singer/songwriter.
she is a poet, an artist.
and she has power.
this song was one of my ultimate sad songs! it made me feel so sad and weird when i'd listen to this album on repeat in high school.
The lyric "Oh my god Barbara look just like my mom" makes me cry.
msminmichigan same
When she drops it like it hot at 3:40
I love this song so much and i try to play it in piano but i cant because is hard to coordinate de piano with The voice in this and also because i always get a lump in my throat. So beautiful!
Anyone else picture Benjamin Franklin on currency when she describes him as crispy? I just see him as being cut out of a bill and all greenish.
+Anoni Maus she is talking about the 100$ bill. "Benjamin franklin came over and babysat all four of my kids" means she paid big bucks for a baby sitter.
I kinda got the vibe that she was referring to the 100$ dollar bill and how you can replace a mothers love with any amount of money (since the mother obviously dies from cancer in the song)
entropy fan every time
She truly has a gift at song writing. She's so amazing(:
Was never really into her music but I've gotta admit this is a great song.
Joe Tomasso I thought the same til I heard oedipus
i thought after so many years i could listen to this song without crying... i was wrong
Regina é maravilhosa, espero ansioso que um dia ela venha ao Brasil!!
Sim! Ainda aguardando
Truly incredible song. The lyrics and the meanings behind them are great. Regina is amazing.
Is and always will be my favorite Regina song!
One of my favourites !
I just found out that she has a son in real life - he's about 1 now. Most of her songs are simply stories, not biographical.
aww lets all hope he doesn't turn into Justin Beiber... X
I only found out a coupla days ago.
YES! I found out a couple weeks ago and was so shocked. I think she put on her facebook that for privacy reasons she wouldn't post any pictures or anything. I wonder if he looks like her!
Cherry Mary And Oh God hope not!! I think with Regina as his mom, he won't :P
Amy Jean On Wikipedia he doesn't even have a name...any idea what he's called? I'd like to know. Not a stalker or anything.
I cried. I cry for almost all of her songs... She's so beautiful.
ugH the saddest part of the song to me is when she sings about barbara... it's so heartwrenchinggg
this is the first song that has ever made me cry. so beautiful.
This song is so perfect, I never get tired of it. It's just so beautiful.
this version is a tad different than the one on my Soviet Kitsch... interesting.
Hell yeah, thanks for that. I thought I was going crazy listening some small little differences. I wonder where the uploader found this, it's clearly another take.
usually they have to tweak the song so they're not I forget the word, but they'll mute the music on TH-cam so your not stealing the artist's song
I was thinking the same thing! I hadn't listened in a while, but I felt like I knew this song particularly well and I couldn't figure how I'd forget 'lil bits.
I guess it's a demo?
This is inceed a different version from the album.
This one of my favorites, listen to it daily, but this version is less polished and one of the differences that made my heart drop was the amount of emotion put in the phrase "oh my god" in the Barbara part, makes it even realer
oh hi past me!! :^)
Hi future
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This is why i think Regina is such an amazing artist and songwriter. Could this be her best song?
Has always been my FAV Regina Specktor song. Can relate to it in my life so much
2nd being " Somewhere Over the Rainbow" because it reminds of the old days being happy when I was a kid. Great memories.
I don't know which of my kids will get this. The one who looks like me? The one who acts like me? The one I least expected? It scares me everyday. Never does a day pass when one of my children will float that thought through my head with the simplest of looks or a gesture. I'm glad Regina gets it enough to sing about it and you at least get it enough to explain it. Sometimes it feels no one sees the things I struggle with, not just being sick but also the mental weight that that carries.
I heard someone singing this song in a dream i had last night, and i sung along and then we smiled at each other and went "nice, we both like the same music"
Regina is quickly climbing up to my top five favorite artists.
Love this Lady beautiful voice and and spirit
YES I FOUND IT I'VE BEEN LOOKING ALL NIGHT YESSSSSSSSSS my first regina song so beautiful :) :):):):)
I love this too much for words. I don't see how the atrocities that we call popular music these days even exist.
I'm crying. This is such a sad yet beautiful song. It so strong. I can't even come up with proper words to describe this. It's heartbreakingly perfect.
My all time FAV Regina S. song I can relate too. Luv it.
As someone who has lost multiple people to cancer this song always chokes me up. Not sure why I can’t help but come back to it again and again.
Regina is most likely the only person who can beatbox badly on an incredibly sad song and make it sound more honest.
SHE IS BEYOND SPECIAL, SHE'S JUST SOMETHING ELSE.. IM SERIOUS.
TALENT IS A SMALL WORD FOR WHAT SHE HAS! JUST LOVE HER, THIS SONG IS JUST AMAZING.
I begin my first full cycle of chemo tomorrow
Somehow this song is comforting even though it’s sad
Thank you SO MUCH for posting this! I've been looking for this song EVERYWHERE :D
This song hits different from when I first hear it before my mom got sick. It is amazing how little doctors help when it is fatal and you can't try for surgery. All of the years of my mom being nurse ended up being worth nothing for the hospice care she got.
I have been looking for this song for over 3 years. Thanks TH-cam!!
Wow. This song absolutely broke my heart.
I am quite seriously blown away by this.
regina is amazing there's a poetry to her music that you rarely see anymore.i know everyone has their own interpretation of this song, regina loves to do that to us, keeping us guessing with all the different meanings to her lyrics but to me this song is:
Loooooove it I love her seen her so many times and I've missed this one somehow I don't know how
the lyrics of her songs are so..amazing and full of emotion that when i hear them i feel proud to speak english and its not many songs or artists that i feel like that towards
No thank you. I'm never going to go out like that.
I thought I could listen to this song and not cry. I was wrong. :'(
Happy birthday to an amazing, timeless song :)
Regina Spektor cannot be described in words. And whoever doesn't think she's totally and completely amazing shouldn't even be on here.
She makes me happy. :)
..............amazing
I found dresden dolls and regina in the same year. Yes that year was wild .
I used to absolutely loathe this song. I loved a lot of her music at the time, but this one was just so confusing and different and strange. Today, it's one of my favorites of hers for all of those same exact reasons. Thanks, Regina.
I remember in like 2012 I used to play this game called Transformice, where you were a little mouse racing to get cheese and at one point you could upload songs to the game. So in between endless amounts of party rock by lmfao being put on by other players, I put on this song. A bunch of people hated it and were begging in the chat to turn it off, except for one other person who was like "hey this song is about someone with cancer you should listen to the lyrics, it's deep" or something like that. Shout out to the one other guy who also liked the song. Maybe I made someone a Regina fan that day, or at least that's what I like to think 😂
This song makes me cry everytime I listen to it. Amazing
Everytime I hear this....
Shivers run down my back and arms. :o
a great story that tells a heartbreaking story, everyone should be thankful how they discovered such a rare display to the public like regina. :)
dude this song is sooo AWESOME!!!!
I like your interpretation. My interpretation was the mother with cancer is still alive, and as she takes them on a limo trip she comes to the sudden realization that she has to leave her four kids behind. It's such a sad song really, beautiful but sad.
My gosh......this girl....is amazing......
Regina is a miracle. I'm glad I was alive when see existed.
... I can't stop listening to this.
incredible
I heard Regina Spektor for the 1st time about 2 weeks ago. I haven't listened to any music other than her music for the time after that.
Crispy crispy crispy crispy crispy
I always think "crispy crispy bacon"
Legendary. My favourite RS tune by a mile.
just awesome, my favorite
Wonderful song
@felicityeufy I know this is pretty unhelpful to you but songs like this are totally open to interpretation, and those interpretations reveal something about ourselves. So with that in mind: what do you think it means?
her beatbox... omg this song is AWESOME!!
As someone who knows someone with brain cancer, this is one of the most beautiful, meaningful, and saddest songs I've ever heard.
This song is so sad... but it makes me love my country and our socialized health care... no one has to die or leave their kids poor because they have a disease.
Canada has Style!
@appleh26 but in the second verse she states "
When I woke up
My kids were being quiet
I knew it was a dream right away
I called the limousine company" So apperantly that part is a dream too. maybe shes drifting in and out of different dreams because of the chemo?
Beautiful song :o I've had it on repeat
I just love this song I think it's my favorite from her the song is so original and bittersweet, poetic
@Lilyfloss really which of your books does it remind you about regina?
@katievhoneychurch Haha the chorus is the part I love most. I think Regina conceived the staccato because when you're near death you completely freak out and start thinking about a lot of randomness, next step is being stubborn and unpolite to anyone, then you come back thinking about the life you're losing (after chorus)
Im a 2 time cancer survivor n this song is amazing..but she was diagnosed with cancer, n shes dreaming about money and her insurance policys for her kids. She refuses chemo n is calling a limo to take the kids minds off it. She knows shes going to die.
This is probably my favorite track on this album, followed by Carbon Monoxide.
This song is so sad. It reminds me of my cousin who died of childhood leukemia at the age of 8 and a half, 15 years ago. I don't remember much about him, but, then again, I don't remember much from my childhood. Now, I wish I had kept a diary back then. This song also reminds me of my Mom's best friend who died from breast cancer about 5-10 years ago. They are both greatly missed. I hope the cancer research scientists find a cure for cancer very soon.