Raindrops

Written by: regina spektor

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Lyrics (fan transcription):

you don’t know but that’s okay
you might find me anyway
don’t you know that I
belong arm in arm with you, baby
in a town that’s cold and gray
we will have a sunny day
don’t you know that I
belong arm in arm with you, baby…

I do not know
where does it go
when it goes
suddenly though
everything’s slow
and I miss you so

round each corner there’s a chance
people searching glance to glance
moving bout real fast
like insects and fish when they’re scared
and they sing the same old song
though it’s been so very long
they sing, raindrops falling on my head
but that doesn’t mean that I am dead

and I do not know
where does it go
when it goes
suddenly though
everything’s slow
and I miss you so

you don’t know but that’s okay
you might find me anyway
don’t you know that I
belong arm in arm with you, baby
in a town that’s cold and gray
we will have a sunny day
don’t you know that I
belong arm in arm with you, baby…

Reading Time with Pickle

Written by: regina spektor

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Lyrics (fan transcription):

walking home from work
stop at the supermarket
the condiment aisle
a jar of pickles catches the eye
made eye contact with a solitary pickle
bought the jar, took it home

then made it up the stairs
and made it through the doorway
and waded through the floor
tried to head in the general direction of the bathroom
the truest room in the whole damn house

saying love is the answer to a question that I have forgotten
and I know I've been asked
so the answer's got to be love

so feeding time with tv
then sleeping time, not sleepy so
reading time with pickle
but where the bedside lamp had been
is now emanating soft soft green

has it always been this way?
is it possible that all this magic went unnoticed?
maybe now things will start to change
and life will turn a better page
no more rage

saying love is the answer to a question that I have forgotten
but I know I've been asked
and the answer's got to be love

tomorrow back to work again
but run to the supermarket
running hopeful through the aisles
haven't been this happy in a long time
but not a single jar was smiling
after all,
pickle jars are just
pickle jars and pickles are just pickles
ingredients: water, salt, cucumbers,
garlic, and pickling spices

love is the answer to a question that I have forgotten
and I know I've been asked
and the answer's got to be love

Reginasaurus

Written by: regina spektor

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Lyrics (fan transcription):

if I was a dinosaur
I'd be a reginasurus
and if I knew a million english words
I'd publish my own spektor's thesaurus
if I was born in the merry month of may
then I would be a taurus
and if I had some extra time on my hands, then I'd
surely join a chorus

if I was a philosophy
I'd be registentialism
and if people spoke using quotes of me
they'd say reginaisms
if I was a religion, then my church
would surely have a schism
there'd be regewish and registian and reguslim and reguddist and regatheist
but they'd still be friends

if I was a great big city
I'd be reginapolis
no one would be sickly or achey
in my thriving metropolis
unless of course they came down with bad case of
reginitis
a heartache and a headache and a sunburn and a little bit of
acute gastritis

but if I was a dinosaur
I'd be a reginasaurus
and if I knew a million english words
I'd have my own spektor's thesaurus
if I was born in the merry month of may
then I would be a taurus
and if I had some extra time on my hands, then I'd
surely join a chorus

Rejazz

Written by: regina spektor

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Lyrics (as originally posted by Regina on brümstix):

Thought I'd cry for you forever
But I couldn't so I didn't
people's children die and they don't even cry forever
Thought I'd see your face in my mind for all time
But I don't even remember what your ears looked like

And the clock still strikes midnight and noon
and the sun still rises and so does the moon
birds still migrate south and people move on
even though I'm no longer in your arms
Thought the mountain would crumble
and the rivers would bend
but I thought all wrong and the world did not end
guess the maps will just have to stay the same for a while
Didn't even need therapy to rehabilitate my smile
rehabilitate my smile

Thought I'd cry for you forever
But I couldn't so I didn't...

Riot Gear

Written by: regina spektor

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Lyrics (fan transcription):

wake up, put on my riot gear
but in the study of my house
i've got a smoking jacket
passed to me from granddaddy
it's made of bow and arrow meat

come home, take off my riot gear
put on my smoke jacket
but in the library of my house
i have a book, medieval jokes
are just as a funny now if you've got a degree

heaven help the ones who know
what makes the world go slow

night comes, time to go on the town
and in my best sashimi dress
and marble arch supporting shoes
i am a vision in my horse drawn tank

stay out, drinking into the night
and they are saying those same things
and i'm like ha ha ha and hee hee hee
til half past three and then it's time for me to go

heaven help the ones who know
what makes the world go slow

come home, take off my tuna dress
put on my collard greens
and in my sleep what dreams may come
before I'm woken by alarms
put on my riot gear

Sailor Song

Written by: regina spektor

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Lyrics (from the Soviet Kitsch liner notes):

She will kiss you til your lips bleed
but she will not take her dress off
Americana
Tropicana
All the sailor boys have demons
they sing oh kentucky why did you forsake me
if I was meant to sail the sea why did you make me
it should have been another state
oh stay...

cause Mary Anne's a bitch
Mary Anne's a bitch

Does it matter that our anger
couldn't even reach the bottom of a bath tub
and the sails reflect the moon it's such a strange job
playing blackjack on the deck
still...Atop this giant puddle
dressed in white we quietly huddle with our missiles
and we miss the girls back home
oh home sweet home...

cause Mary Anne's a bitch
Mary Anne's a bitch

She will kiss you til your lips bleed
but she will not take her dress off
Americana
Tropicana

Samson

Written by: regina spektor

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Lyrics (from the Begin to Hope liner notes):

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first, I loved you first beneath
The sheets of paper lies my truth
I have to go, I have to go
Your hair was long when we first met

Samson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
Ate a slice of Wonder bread and
Went right back to bed
And the history books forgot about us
And the Bible didn't mention us
Not even once

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first, I love you first beneath
The stars came falling on our hats
But they're just old light, they're just old light
Your hair was long when we first met

Samson came to my bed
Told me that my hair was red
Told me I was beautiful and
Came into my bed
Oh I cut his hair myself one night
A pair of dull scissors in the yellow light
And he told me that I'd done alright
And kissed me till the morning light, the morning light
And he kissed me till the morning light

Samson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
Ate a slice of Wonder bread and
Went right back to bed
Oh we couldn't bring the columns down
Yeah we couldn't destroy a single one
And the history books forgot about us
And the Bible didn't mention us
Not even once