Genius Lyrics
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Regina Spektor – Dance Anthem of the 80's
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Regina Spektor’s deconstruction of love and sex during the 80’s done in her own signature style. Bouncy, melodic, and by the end, devastatingly bittersweet.
And if you hear a
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Regina Spektor – Two Birds
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[Verse 1] / Two birds on a wire / One tries to fly away / And the other watches him close from that wire / He says he wants to as well / But he is a liar / [Chorus] / I'll believe
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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 – 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 – Folding Chair
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[Verse 1] / Come and open up your folding chair next to me / My feet are buried in the sand and there's a breeze / There's a shadow, you can't see my eyes / And the sea is just a
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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 – Man of a Thousand Faces
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[Verse 1] / The man of a thousand faces / Sits down at the table / Eats a small lump of sugar / And smiles at the moon like he knows her / [Verse 2] / He begins his quiet ascension
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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 – Silly Eye-Color Generalizations
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There are those boys with earthly eyes / Their eyes are like the ground / You walk and walk / Kicking up dirt / But they don't make a sound / And when they kiss you, they sometimes
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Regina Spektor – Time Is All Around
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[Verse 1] / You step on all my parts / And then you walk right out the door / And I know that your love ain't never / Coming back no more / [Bridge] / Time is all around / Except
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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 – 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 – The Sword and the Pen
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[Verse 1] / Don't let me out of this kiss / Don't let me say what I say / The things that scare us today / What if they happen someday? / Don't let me out of your arms for now
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Regina Spektor – One More Time with Feeling
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Your stitches are all out / But your scars are healing wrong / The helium balloon inside your room has come undone / And it's pushing up at the ceiling / And the flickering lights
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Regina Spektor – Bobbing For Apples
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[Verse 1: Regina Spektor] / Bobbing for apples in Somalia / The man with the iron curtain is following you / No one's coming for tea time / Except my own holy ghost / You're
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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 – Human of the Year
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In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, when asked about the song, Spektor said:
It’s a story about this guy who goes into a cathedral and gets this award that obviously doesn’
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Regina Spektor – Love, You're a Whore
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Was a bright, and sweet, and hot summer day / The day I didn't love you anymore / Some little key wound up my poor heart which had stopped / As I walked to the grocery store / All
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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 – 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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