Annotate For Fun!

I annotated this song on a lyrics website, just for fun. And then I realized, what great material it could be for my blog! Enjoy!
(P.S. The song is playing on the little music player!)

Music Box by Regina Spektor

Life inside the music box ain't easy

The mallets hit

The gears are always turning

And everyone inside the mechanism

Is yearning to get out

And sing another melody completely

So different from the one they're always singing

I close my eyes and think that I have found me

But then I feel mortality surround me

I want to sing another melody

So different from the one I always sing

But when I do the dishes

I run the water very very very hot

And then I fill the sink to the top with bubbles of soap

And then I set all the bottle caps I own afloat

And it's the greatest voyage in the history of plastic

And then I slip my hands in and start to make waves

And then I dip my tongue in and take a taste

It tastes like soap but it doesn't really taste like soap

And then I lower in my whole mouth and take a gulp

And start to feel mortality surround me

I close my eyes and think that I have found me

But life inside the music box ain't easy

The mallets hit

The gears are always turning

And every one inside the mechanism
Is yearning to get out

And sing another melody completely

Is yearning to get out

Is yearning to get out

Is yearning to get out

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In the beginning, when she says
"Life inside the music box ain't easy
The mallets hit
The gears are always turning"
I think she's telling the listener that: Life as a musician isn't easy, my brain is always thinking of new things to come up with, "The gears are always turning".
Then, when she says the lines,
"And everyone inside the mechanism
Is yearning to get out
And sing another melody completely
So different from the one they're always singing"
She's explaining that, Everyone inside this mechanism is yearning to get out, or all the musicians are trying to get they're voices heard.
She says, "and sing another melody completely so different from the one they're always singing" meaning that they're trying to come up with new ideas or new styles, different form everyone else and all of the things we're used to hearing.
Then, when she starts singing about the dishes, she's singing about, well, the dishes. Who else sings about doing the dishes? Exactly! "So different from the one they're always singing…"