Genius Lyrics
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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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Kishi Bashi – Laughing With
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[Verse 1] / No one laughs at God in a hospital / No one laughs at God in a war / No one's laughing at God when they're starving or freezing or so very poor / No one laughs at God
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Genius Russian Translations (Русские переводы) – Regina Spektor - Laughing With (Русский перевод)
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[Куплет 1] / Никто не смеётся над Богом в больнице / Никто не смеётся над Богом на войне / Никто не смеётся над Богом / Когда они голодают, мёрзнут / Или очень бедны / Никто не
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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 – 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 – 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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Aggressive Kansas – Bereavement
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No one laughs at God in a hospital / No one laughs at God in a war / No one's laughing at God / When they're starving or freezing / Or so very poor / No one laughs at God when the
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – The Noise
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[Verse 1] / All the power of my voice can't compare / With the power of a quiet whisper / Still, it's a choice, and I choose to rage / Instead of ever quietly listening / [Chorus
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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