Artist: Regina Spektor
Track: All the Rowboats
Lyrics
All the rowboats in the paintings
They keep trying to row away
And the captains' worried faces
Stay contorted and staring at the waves
They'll keep hanging in their gold frames
For forever, forever and a day
All the rowboats in the oil paintings
They keep trying to row away, row away
Hear them whispering French and German
Dutch, Italian, and Latin
When no one's looking I catch a sculpture marble,
Cold, and soft as satin
But the most special are the most lonely
God, I pity the violins
In glass coffins they keep coughing
They've forgotten, forgotten how to sing, how to sing
First there's lights out, then there's lock up
Masterpieces serving maximum sentences
It's their own fault for being timeless
There's a price you pay and a consequence
All the galleries, the museums
Here's your ticket, welcome to the tombs
They're just public mausoleums
The living dead fill every room
But the most special are the most lonely
God, I pity the violins
In glass coffins they keep coughing
They've forgotten, forgotten how to sing
They will stay there in their gold frames
For forever, forever and a day
All the rowboats in the oil paintings
They keep trying to row away, row away
First there's lights out, then there's lock up
Masterpieces serving maximum sentences
It's their own fault for being timeless
There's a price you pay and a consequence
All the galleries, the museums
They will stay there forever and a day
All the rowboats in the oil paintings
They keep trying to row away, row away
All the rowboats in the oil paintings
They keep trying to row away, row away
Full Lyrics and Meaning
Genius Lyrics
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Regina Spektor – All the Rowboats
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“All the Rowboats” was released as the first single from What We Saw From the Cheap Seats. The song explores the idea that everything on display in museums is alive and being held
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Regina Spektor – All the Rowboats Samples
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See all of “All the Rowboats” by Regina Spektor’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Regina Spektor – The Party
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[Verse 1] / You're like a party somebody threw me / You taste like birthday / You look like New Years / You're like a big parade through town / You leave such a mess but you're so
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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 – Oh Marcello
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This is the second song off of Regina Spektor’s sixth studio album What We Saw From The Cheap Seats. The song is a retelling of The New Testament, with references to King Herod
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Regina Spektor – How
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[Verse 1] / How can I forget your love? / How can I never see you again? / There is a time and place / For one more sweet embrace / And there's a time, ooh / When it all, ooh
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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 – Patron Saint
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This song details the struggles of an unhealthy relationship, in which the subject is a girl who has very little self-worth and destructive tendencies and her partner works to
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Regina Spektor (Ft. Only Son) – Call Them Brothers
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That's it, it's split - it won't recover / Just frame the halves and call them brothers / Find your fathers and your mothers / If you remember who they are / Over and over, they
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Regina Spektor – Ballad of a Politician
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This is a satirical song relating politicians to strippers in American society, but also showing that even prostitutes and strippers are not as low as politicians, because they are
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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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HorizonRose
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i’m just trying to be gay and have a good time!
they/them or i will 🔪
not addressing homophobia under the guise of neutrality is still homophobic 🤪
i actually started here because i was putting lyrics on every song of my 4,000-song itunes library and realized that i was running across a lot of stuff that i could clean up. jump like six months in the future and i’m #1 on a number of artists that i like a lot. i also have 6,000 songs now.
crazy.
for more about me, visit this site i made!
biggest sources of pride:
#1 on murder by death, danny gonzalez/young face, grandson, and bike for three.
transcribed almost all the lyrics for bike for three and every song on the squiddles album.
if something i say just absolutely makes 0.0 sense, or even just feels like awkward wording, feel free to add a suggestion! i have brain damage that causes some cognitive problems with language, so sometimes i’ll have a hard time finding the right word for something. i won’t take it as an insult. 😊
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Regina Spektor – Don't Leave Me (Ne me quitte pas)
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This is a song about the nostalgia of desperate people. An early version of the song was included on Regina Spektor’s 2002 self-released album Songs.
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Regina Spektor – Old Jacket (Stariy Pedjak)
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This song is a cover of Old Jacket (Старый Пиджак in Russian) by Bulat Okudzhava.
Here is the English translation of the lyrics:
I’ve worn my jacket far too long,
It’s getting
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Coeur de Glace (Ft. Anna Nasse) – Robots
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[Coeur de Glace] / Negro si la vie me que-n’ / Je ne connais pas de peine / Sang bouillonnant dans les veines / Car une épée j’ai dégainée / Le sensei qui m’a entraîné / Est celui
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Regina Spektor – The Prayer of François Villon (Molitva)
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This song is a cover of The Prayer of François Villon (Молитва Франсуа Вийона in Russian) by Bulat Okudzhava.
Here is the English translation of the lyrics:
While yet the Earth
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Genius Q&A
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Q:Who produced “All the Rowboats” by Regina Spektor?
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“All the Rowboats” by Regina Spektor was produced by Regina Spektor & Mike Elizondo.
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Q:When did Regina Spektor release “All the Rowboats”?
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Regina Spektor released “All the Rowboats” on February 27, 2012.
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