Tuesday, March 31, 1970

Summer in the City

Written by: regina spektor

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Lyrics (from the Begin to Hope liner notes):
Summer in the city means
Cleavage cleavage cleavage
And I start to miss you, baby, sometimes
I’ve been staying up and drinking in late night establishments
Telling strangers personal things

Summer in the city
I’m so lonely lonely lonely
So I went to a protest just to rub up against strangers
And I did feel like coming but I also felt like crying
And it doesn’t seem so worth it right now

And the castrated ones stand on the corner smoking
They want to feel the bulges in their pants start to rise
At the site of a beautiful woman
They feel nothing but anger
Her skin makes them sick in the night
Nauseous nauseous nauseous

Summer in the city
I’m so lonely lonely lonely
I been hallucinating you, babe, at the backs of other women
And I tap them on the shoulder and they turn around smiling
But there’s no recognition in their eyes

Summer in the city means
Cleavage cleavage cleavage
And don’t get me wrong, dear
In general I think I’m doing quite fine
It’s just when it’s summer in the city
And you’re so long gone from this city
I start to miss you, baby, sometimes

When it’s summer in the city
And you’re so long gone from the city
I start to miss you, baby, sometimes


Wednesday, March 25, 1970

Sunshine

Written by: regina spektor

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Lyrics (as originally posted by Regina on brümstix):
Mr. Sunshine in the morning
in the morning light
won't you come down from the ceiling
won't you stay the night
baby won't you stay the night

In the summer I remember days so long and hot
These past weeks it has been raining
and now my song's a flood
baby now my song is a flood

You've been driving down that same road
road rage in your eyes
so won't you come down from the ceiling
won't you hear my cries
won't you hear my cries


Friday, March 20, 1970

That Time

Written by: regina spektor

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Lyrics (from the Begin to Hope liner notes):
Hey remember the time when I found a human tooth down on Delancey
Hey remember that time we decided to kiss anywhere except the mouth
Hey remember that time when my favorite colors was pink and green
Hey remember that month when I only ate boxes of tangerines
So cheap and juicy!
Hey remember that time when I would only read Shakespeare
Hey remember that other time when I would only read the backs of cereal boxes
Hey remember that time I tried to save a pigeon with a broken wing
A street cat got him by morning and I had to bury pieces of his body in our building’s playground
I thought I was gonna be sick
Hey remember that time when I would only smoke Parliaments
Hey remember that time when I would only smoke Marlboros
Hey remember that time when I would only smoke Camels
Hey remember that time when I was broke
I didn’t care I'd just bum from my friends
Bum ba bum ba bum bum...
Hey remember that time when you OD’ed
Hey remember that other time when you OD’ed for the second time
Well in the waiting room while waiting for news of you
I hallucinated I could read your mind
And I was on a lot of shit too but what I saw, man,
I tell you it was freaky
Freaky


Wednesday, March 11, 1970

Time Is All Around

Written by: regina spektor

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Lyrics (fan transcription):

You step on all my parts
and then you walk right out the door
and I know that your love ain't ever coming back no more
Time is all around
except inside my clock
Everybody's waiting for their lover to unlock

Leaves become most beautiful when they're about to die
when they're about to fall from trees
when they're about to dry up
Time is all around

I hallucinate a cat between my feet
I'm stepping lightly so as not to hurt it
Everybody wants to say that you have changed
Of course you've changed, you've changed, you've changed
your mind's been rearranged

What am I supposed to love if I don't want to love?
Why am I supposed to? I'm so tired
What am I supposed to love if I don't want to?
I don't want to…




Sunday, March 08, 1970

Two Birds

Written by: regina spektor

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Lyrics (fan transcription):
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

I'll believe it all
there's nothing I won't understand
I'll believe it all
I won't let go of your hand

two birds on a wire
one says, come on
and the other says, I'm tired
the sky is overcast
and I'm sorry
one more or one less
nobody's worried

I'll believe it all
there's nothing I won't understand
I'll believe it all
I won't let go of your hand

two birds of a feather
say that they're always
gonna stay together
but one's never going
to let go of that wire
he says that he will
but he's just a liar

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

two birds on a wire
one tries to fly away
and the other



Saturday, March 07, 1970

Uh-merica

Written by: regina spektor

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Lyrics (from the Begin to Hope Special Edition liner notes):
Mrs. E Roosevelt never heard me shoot my gun
Mrs. E Roosevelt didn't even knew I owned one
Somewhere betweeen the cobblestone floor and the slated wooden ceiling
Cuddling my semi-automatic, what a very fuzzy feeling
Oh...There's nothing like emptying a cartridge at the sun

Uh-merica

Oh we're born alone and then we're covered by m-m-m-mothers' kisses
The mind has already forgotten what the body still misses
Somewhere between the sticky floor and the cracks in the ceiling
Cuddling my semi-automatic, what a very fuzzy feeling
Oh...There's nothing like emptying a cartridge at the sun

Uh-merica

There's nothing like emptying a cartridge at the sun


Sunday, March 01, 1970

Uncle Bobby

Written by: regina spektor

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Lyrics (fan transcription):
some people's stories, they go nowhere at all
some people's songs are catchy but they don't touch the soul
but yours are like a feeding tube right through my ears
they fatten up my dreams and run through my bloodstreams

uncle bobby, uncle bobby
uncle bobby, I love you so
uncle bobby, I love you, love you, uncle
uncle bobby, you'll never know

I love you not like a husband to have and to hold
I love you not like a child to do as they're told
I love you not like a sculpture love her mold
I love you not like a masterpiece bought and sold

uncle bobby, I love you, love you, uncle
uncle bobby, I love you so
uncle bobby, I love you, love you, love you, uncle
uncle bobby, you'll never know

I know you're just a man of flesh
and a bit of sand and blood and cash
but I'm so glad you've been born
unto us, unto us

you leave me torn and lovelorn
you leave me crying, ready to mourn
you leave me waiting for that eternal storm
you leave me happy and reborn
you leave trying to break down doors
and waiting for more, waiting for more

uncle bobby, I love you, love you, uncle
uncle bobby, you'll never know
uncle bobby, I love you, love you, love you, uncle
uncle bobby, I love you so
uncle bobby, uncle bobby, I love you
uncle bobby, I love you so

not like a husband to have and to hold
not like a disciple who do what they're told
not like a masterpiece that's been bought and sold
not like the frontiers when love is gold
not like the icicle love the winter cold

uncle bobby, I love you, uncle
uncle bobby, I love you so
uncle bobby, I love you, love you, love you, uncle
uncle bobby, you'll never know
uncle bobby, uncle bobby, I love you
uncle bobby, I love you so
uncle bobby...you'll never know