 Genius Lyrics
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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 – Hero
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Regina speaks on original sin
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Regina Spektor – Fidelity
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“Fidelity” explores the apprehension of falling in love, worrying about the inevitable heartbreak that could arise from yielding feelings to another person.
Not being known as a
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Regina Spektor – Us Samples
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See all of “Us” by Regina Spektor’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Black Country, New Road – Us
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[Verse 1] / They made a statue of us / And put it on a mountaintop / The tourists come and stare at us / Blow bubbles with their gum / Take photographs of fun, have fun / [Verse 2
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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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Lindsay Mendez & Marco Paguia – Us
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[Verse 1] / They made a statue of us / And put it on a mountaintop / Now tourists come and stare at us / Blow bubbles with their gum / Take photographs of fun, have fun / They'll
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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 – One Little Soldier
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[Verse 1] / Did you think you'd get to run the world forever? / Little soldiers fighting loyal by your side / That you'd get to play the role of grand commander / Never questioning
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Regina Spektor (Ft. Ben Folds) – Dear Theodosia
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[Verse 1: Regina Spektor] / Dear Theodosia, what to say to you? / You have my eyes, you have your mother’s name / When you came into the world, you cried / And it broke my heart
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Regina Spektor – Amplifiers
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People, people / Don't blame the amplifiers / They were only amplifying what needed to be amplified / And the stockings / Well that's another story / Stretched and stretched
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Regina Spektor – No Surprises
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[Verse] / A heart that's full up like a landfill / A job that slowly kills you / Bruises that won't heal / You look so tired, unhappy / Bring down the government / They don't, they
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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 – 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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Ben Folds (Ft. Regina Spektor) – You Don't Know Me
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[Verse 1: Ben Folds] / I wanna ask you: / Do you ever sit and wonder / It's so strange that we could be together for / So long, and never know, never care / What goes on in the
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Regina Spektor – Ne me quitte pas
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[Verse 1] / Down in Bowery, they lose their ball-eyes / And their lipped-mouths in the night / And stumbling through the street / They say, "Sir, do you got a light? / And if you
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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 – Soho
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[Verse 1] / It's surprising how little things we lose / I was walking through the streets of Soho / Looking for a diamond ring / But I didn't find a thing / Not a necklace, not a
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Après Moi
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This song speaks about citizens revolting against monarchies they feel have oppressed them (mainly French and Russian are referenced in this song). It talks about how after
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Bartender
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[Verse 1] / Come on bartender / Won't you be more tender / Give me two shots of whiskey / And a beer chaser / [Chorus] / Love will be the death of me / Love is so fickle / It
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