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Regina Spektor – On the Radio
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This song reveals the true meaning of life through an individual’s events in their own life. From the death of a loved one, the loss of innocence, and Regina’s own revelation.
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Regina Spektor – Grand Hotel
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‘Grand Hotel’ appears on Regina Spektor’s seventh studio album, Remember Us To Life, as the third track. Out of the first five songs, (Bleeding Heart, Older and Taller, Grand Hotel
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Regina Spektor – Genius Next Door
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[Verse 1] / Some said the local lake had been enchanted / Others said it must have been the weather / The neighbors were trying to keep it quiet / But I swear that I could hear the
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Regina Spektor – Open
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[Verse 1] / I am down the road and up the hill / I wait for you still / Wires 'round my fingers / [Pre-Hook] / Potentially lovely / Perpetually human / Suspended and open / [Hook
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Regina Spektor – Lacrimosa
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[Intro] / We keep on burying our dead / We keep on planting their bones in the ground / But they won't grow / The sun doesn't help / The rain doesn't help / [Verse 1] / If my
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Regina Spektor – Small Bill$
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“Small Bill$” is Regina Spektor’s second single on the album Remember Us To Life.
The video for the song uses Soviet-era aesthetics. This is a reference to Regina’s childhood as
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Regina Spektor – Obsolete
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The ninth track off Remember Us to Life, Obsolete pertains to themes of melancholy stemming from estrangement, from not being (or rather, feeling) understood, from the fear of
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Regina Spektor – Black and White
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[Verse 1] / All my love in black and white / On this color photograph / Sad, sad eyes, know too much / You will always start to cry / [Chorus] / Why should I wait for tomorrow
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Regina Spektor – Love Affair
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[Verse 1] / There was a love affair in this building / The kind of love affair / Which every respectable building must keep as a legend / [Verse 2] / Slowly festering through an
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Regina Spektor – Better
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“Better” is one of Regina’s oldest songs. She decided to record it for Begin to Hope with guitar from Nick Valensi of The Strokes.
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Regina Spektor – Machine
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[Verse 1] / My eyes are bifocal / My hands are sept-jointed / I live in the future / In my prewar apartment / And I count all my blessings / I have friends in high places / And I'm
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Regina Spektor – Blue Lips
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Taken from her career highlight 2009 record Far, “Blue Lips” is an example of the way Spektor could entrance an audience at her peak. A piano riff that almost feels like rain
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Regina Spektor – Bartender
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[Verse 1] / Come on bartender / Won't you be more tender / Give me two shots of whiskey / And a beer chaser / [Chorus] / Love will be the death of me / Love is so fickle / It
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Regina Spektor – Wallet
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[Verse 1] / I found a wallet / I found a wallet / Inside were pictures of your small family / You were so young / Your hair dark brown / You had been born in nineteen fifty-three
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Regina Spektor – Hero
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Regina speaks on original sin
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Regina Spektor – 20 Years of Snow
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He's a wounded animal / He lives in a matchbox / He's a wounded animal / And he's been coming around here / He's a dying breed / He's a dying breed / His daughter is twenty years
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Regina Spektor – Laughing With
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In Laughing With, Regina Spektor looks at how God, the being who created all things, is viewed differently at different moments in life. It’s easy to think the idea of God is
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Regina Spektor – Coin
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[Verse 1] / I gave a coin to a shaman / He showed me a vision so bright / I was so glad to have seen it all / But I awoke with a fright / [Verse 2] / So I gave a coin to a
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Regina Spektor – December
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[Verse 1] / December starts on Sunday, next Sunday / Won't you feel happier then? / Turn your room upside down / Turn your down upside- / [Refrain 1] / Rumors have started that you
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Regina Spektor – Fidelity
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“Fidelity” explores the apprehension of falling in love, worrying about the inevitable heartbreak that could arise from yielding feelings to another person.
Not being known as a
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Regina Spektor – Another Town
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[Verse 1] / In another town / Don't let me forget / In another town / Mouth full of regrets / In another town / Please place final bets / [Verse 2] / In another town / But I know I
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Regina Spektor – Bleeding Heart
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‘Bleeding Heart’ is a life-affirming song about living with social anxiety and overcoming it. The song tells the story of a lonely person (Regina’s subject, you the listener) who
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Regina Spektor – Quarters
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[Verse 1] / On a subway, in a corner / Playing drums and a guitar / There’s this old man and this blonde girl / And I’ve been walking from so far / [Chorus] / Hey, here a quarter
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Regina Spektor – Eet
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“Eet” is a wistful, introspective song brimming with nostalgia. The overarching themes seem to be about a person’s development of morality through their experience in their
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Regina Spektor – The Call
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“The Call” was written for the Disney film, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and is featured in the film’s finale and ending credits.
In an interview with Village Voice
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Regina Spektor – Jessica
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[Verse 1] / Jessica, wake up / Jessica, wake up / It's February again, we must get older, so wake up / I can't write a song for you / I'm out of melodies / I can't write a song for
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Regina Spektor – Aquarius
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[Verse 1] / Dear someone listening in the shadows / I only talk to you sometimes / And though I ask for help in riddles / It is clearer in my mind, clearer in my mind / [Chorus
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Regina Spektor – Mermaid
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I am a mermaid / But I've sold my voice / For a pair of feet / That tend to bleed / When I go walking in the road / I am a mermaid / But I've sold my voice / For a couple of feet
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Regina Spektor – The Trapper and the Furrier
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“The Trapper and the Furrier” is a dark, brooding song about the world’s social structures and injustices, as Regina ponders the “strange, strange world we live in.” She also tells
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Regina Spektor – Loveology
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[Verse 1] / Oh, an incurable humanist you are / Oh, an incurable humanist you are / You are, you are, are, you are / Oh, an incurable humanist you are / Oh, an incurable humanist
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Regina Spektor – Après Moi
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This song speaks about citizens revolting against monarchies they feel have oppressed them (mainly French and Russian are referenced in this song). It talks about how after
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Regina Spektor – Edit
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[Refrain] / White lines on your mind / Keep it steady / You were never ready for the lies / White lines on your mind / Keep it steady / You were never ready for the lies / [Chorus
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Regina Spektor – Prisoners
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All of the prisoners serving life sentences / Wait for the earth to suddenly shake / For the walls to somehow suddenly come crumbling, tumbling and / For the bars to somehow
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Regina Spektor – Riot Gear
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[Verse 1] / Wake up / Put on my riot gear / But in the study of my house / I've got a smoking jacket passed to me from Grand Daddy / It's made of bow and arrow meat / Do do do do
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Regina Spektor – Cyclone
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[Verse] / Like a cyclone in a black and white movie / You are moving, but your words are not soothing / Like a warrior, like a baby / Conversations without any maybes / [Chorus
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Regina Spektor – The Calculation
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[Verse 1] / You went into the kitchen cupboard / Got yourself another hour / And gave half of it to me / We sat there looking at the faces / Of the strangers in the pages / 'Til we
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Regina Spektor – You've Got Time
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Regina Spektor wrote and recorded “You’ve Got Time” specifically for Orange Is The New Black, a Netflix Original Series based on the book Orange Is The New Black: My Year In a
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Regina Spektor – Firewood
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This is a song about doing whatever you can do be brave and keep going in difficult situations. Sometimes “whatever you can” involves things that seem shocking to other people, but
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Regina Spektor – Sailor Song
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[Intro] / She will kiss you till your lips bleed / But she will not take her dress off / Americana, Tropicana / [Verse 1] / All the sailor boys have demons / They sing, "Oh
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Regina Spektor – Sunshine
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[Verse 1] / Mr. Sunshine in the morning, in the morning light / Won't you come down from the ceiling? / Oh, won't you stay the night? / Baby, won't you stay the night? / [Verse 2
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Regina Spektor – Somedays
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Seemingly complex at first, Regina tells the simple tale of the struggle with depression.
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