Regina Spektor: Samson Meaning
Song Released: 2007
Samson Lyrics
I loved you first, I loved you first
Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth
I have to go, I have to go
Your hair was long when we first met
Samson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
He ate a...
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It sounds like this it the woman who loved him before Delilah. I'm not familiar with the biblical text, but if Samson was married before, like a previous writer mentioned, then this could be her song. When the lyrics say that she cut his hair and he told her she did well, that they couldn't bring down the pillars and that the Bible didn't mention them it sounded as if she wished that things had been different, that she and Samson had stayed married and lived out their lives together without the events taking place in their lives that made headlines. Later when she says that he laid his head down with little hair on his head that, to me, says that it changed from his hair being cut to him losing his hair with age and they have lived that way into old age.
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I think the person above had a pretty good attempt at interpreting the song and they could well be right. but originally I thought it was about divorce. The line "beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth"could mean that she has signed divorce papers. She may have divorced him because he cheated on her. That is why she says "I loved you first". And the columns "we couldn't bring the columns down" (or something like that) means they couldn't work their problems out. She also says that Samson is her "sweetest downfall" which I thought might mean that she still loves him ("sweetest") but he is not good for her as he has cheated ("downfall"). There may be nothing in this analysis, but I just thought I'd add a different perspective.
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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Lyrics:
You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first, I loved you first
Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth*
I have to go, I have to go
Your hair was long when we first met**
Samson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
He ate a slice of wonder bread and went right back to bed
And history books forgot about us and the bible didn't mention us
And the bible didn't mention us, not even once***
You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first, I loved you first
Beneath the stars came fallin' on our heads
But they're just old light, they're just old light
Your hair was long when we first met
Samson came to my bed
Told me that my hair was red
Told me I was beautiful and came into my bed
Oh I cut his hair myself one night
A pair of dull scissors in the yellow light****
And he told me that I'd done alright
And kissed me 'til the mornin' light, the mornin' light
And he kissed me 'til the mornin' light*****
Samson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
Ate a slice of wonderbread and went right back to bed
Oh, we couldn't bring the columns down
Yeah we couldn't destroy a single one
And history books forgot about us
And the bible didn't mention us, not even once
You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first
*her writings are her truth
**an allusion to biblical Samson
***it was so monumental to her, but no one else
****she "made him weak" by taking his hair
*****they had sex
basically, this girl met this guy, loved him, and then through biblical allusions, they fell in love
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