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Regina Spektor – The Flowers
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This ode to a dead relationship was released on a double A-side with “Your Honor”.
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Regina Spektor – Sellers of Flowers
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[Verse 1] / The sellers of flowers / Buy up old roses / They pull off dead petals / Like old heads of lettuce / And sell ’em as new ones / For cheaper and fairer / But they die by
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Regina Spektor – Lounge
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[Verse] / I don't care that flowers grow for you / And me, and me / You don't know what love is till you see / Her standing there / A web of skin and nails and hair[x2] / And bones
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Regina Spektor – What Might Have Been
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[Verse 1] / Sickness and flowers go together / Bombing and shelters go together / Laughing and hurting go together / Finding and keeping go together / [Chorus] / Canary yellow
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The Avett Brothers – Famous Flower of Manhattan
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And I found a flower in a field / A field of cars and people / Rows of concrete, paint, and steel / Manhattan is where it grew / And I thought to cut it from its stem / And take it
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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 – My Man
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My man don't treat me right / Don't kiss me sweet good night / Don't buy me flowers to smell / Oh, he's a rotten boy from hell / My man don't treat me good / He eats up all my food
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Regina Spektor (Ft. Anders Griffen) – Woolen Gloves
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Come downstairs / I'll put flowers in your hair / Won't you forgive me now? / Won't you forgive me now? / Won't you forgive me now? / Oh baby, won't you forgive me now? / Some days
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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 – 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 – Samson
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Allegedly, A&R representatives thought this track was so beautiful there was no way it could be written by such a young artist as Regina Spektor.
It originally appeared on 2002’s
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Regina Spektor – Us
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Even though this comes off an album entitled “Soviet Kitsch”, there is a condemnation of the people who try to impose themselves on others (like Soviets did to artists and which
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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 – End of Thought
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End of Thought is the fourteenth song on Regina Spektor’s 2016 album, “Remember Us To Life.” It is only available on the deluxe version of the album.
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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 – Whisper
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The only spoken word piece on Soviet Kitsch, it’s sandwiched between Sailor Song and Your Honor.
Sometimes titled “ * * * ”
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – The Visit
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[Verse 1] / I'm so glad that you stopped in / And I had some things to say / But now they've been forgotten / They'll get said a different day / They'll get said a different way
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Regina Spektor – New Year
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New Year is the twelfth song on Regina Spektor’s 2016 album, “Remember Us To Life.” It is only available on the deluxe version of the album.
It tells the story of a woman who
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Regina Spektor – Older and Taller
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The 4th single from Remember Us to Life.
This song explores the topic of feeling jaded about growing older and yearning for youth when life still stretched before you with so much
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Regina Spektor – Poor Little Rich Boy
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[Verse 1] / Poor little rich boy, all the couples have gone / You wish that they hadn't, you don't wanna be alone / But they wanna kiss and they got homes of their own / Poor
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Regina Spektor – Ode to Divorce
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An ode is a lyrical poem that addresses a specific topic or idea. Odes are typically meant to glorify and show strong feelings of love or respect towards their subjects, so it is
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Regina Spektor – Chemo Limo
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This song talks about the state of health insurance companies in the twenty-first century and the injustice of privatisation.
Humans are currently forced to earn a living to be
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Regina Spektor (Ft. Kill Kenada) – Your Honor
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[Verse 1] / I kissed your lips and I tasted blood / Duh na-nuh-nuh duh na-nuh-nuh duh-na-nuh-na-nuh / I asked you what happened and you said there'd been a fight / Duh na-nuh-nuh
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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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Regina Spektor – The Light
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[Verse 1] / The light was shining in my eyes before I closed them / And all the dreams I had the night before came back / The faces that I'd seen looked so familiar / But they're
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Regina Spektor – The Ghost of Corporate Future
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[Verse 1] / A man walks out of his apartment / It is raining, he's got no umbrella / He starts running beneath the awnings / Trying to save his suit, trying to save his suit
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Regina Spektor – Carbon Monoxide
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A clash of generations, from the point of view of a youth not yet ready to cope with the demands of the adult world.
There are several references to Sylvia Plath’s poem, “Daddy
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