 Genius Lyrics
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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 – Pavlov's Daughter
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Perhaps Regina’s most unique song, ‘Pavlov’s Daughter’ incorporates a number of different narratives together in one song, the tone and music altering with each changing section
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Regina Spektor – Oedipus
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Just as she did with “Samson”, Regina Spektor retells the myth of Oedipus, focusing on the relationship between the young royal and his mother, the Queen.
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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 (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 – 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 – Consequence of Sounds
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A companion song to her song, “Pavlov’s Daughter”, from the album 11:11. Both songs explore the way that people respond to the sounds around them—these sounds range from the
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 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 – 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 – 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 – Becoming All Alone
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[Verse 1] / I went walking home alone / Past all the bars and corner delis / When I heard God call out my name / And he said "Hey, let's grab a beer / It's awful late, we both
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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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Spotify – New Music Friday 02/25/22
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Every Friday, Spotify compiles the hottest and most notable recent releases. If you want to discover new music and keep up with the freshest songs, listen to the playlist below and
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