Regina Spektor

Somewhere far away where I roam There live my buffalo twin in our twin buffalo home He calls me by my native name And takes good care of my native son He even lets us drink spring water on Sundays 2.99 a gallon And somewhere further down the road where I also...

He's a wounded animal He lives in a matchbox He's a wounded animal And he's been coming around here He's a dying breed He's a dying breed His daughter is twenty years of snow falling She's twenty years of strangers looking into each other's eyes She's twenty...

no one waits for her inside the house she spots a stranger in the mirror and the record spins her nearer to the outcome of her day you live inside the city you forget how tall the trees can get a bird sits on a branch across from my eighth floor window...

A cannon was fired by the light of the moon I'm waiting, the boat should be here very soon And I mind less and less all the silly pictures that hang round my room, for now I write you a letter I hope you feel better I hope you forgive the transgretions I've gi...

A cooler version of yourself A cooler version of your dad A crueler version in my mind I pull away when you're inside I pull away when you're inside I pull away when you're inside So young And drunk And young And drunk I lie down here until I die...

I don't know how to fall down the stairs I don't know how to fall down the stairs without hurting myself I don't know how to fall down the stairs without skinning my knees and bruising my elbows twisting my ankles and bending my wrists back and I don't k...

Aching to pupate Aching to pup-p-p-pate... Pu-pupate, pu pate, Pu-pate, pu-pupate, pu pa-ate… I should peddle butterflies There's a shortage in the city I'll stand on a street corner All mysterious and giddy When the passers-by pass by I will open up my tren...

It aint no cover, it aint no style. I shouldn't bother, he's eight miles high. But I adore him, and I implore him, Saying I love him mother, but this aint no style. He sits there smoking his breath away He sits there choking on what they say But I adore him,...

All the rowboats in the paintings They keep trying to row away And the captains' worried faces Stay contorted and staring at the waves They'll keep hanging in their gold frames For forever, forever and a day All the rowboats in the oil paintings They ke...

In another town Don't let me forget In another town Mouth full of regrets In another town Please place final bets In another town But I know I know I know In another town My fingers so cold In another town My soul feels so old In another town I've...

I must go on standing You can't break that which isn't yours I must go on standing I'm not my own, it's not my choice Be afraid of the lame They'll inherit your legs Be afraid of the old They'll inherit your souls Be afraid of the cold They'll inherit your bl...

Dear someone listening in the shadows, I only talk to you sometimes. And though I ask for help in riddles, it is, clearer in my mind, clearer in my mind. Born of a sign that carries vessels, but in a month as cold as ice. I know I question things too quickly,...

A boy on a train with a birthmark on his forehead Listening to language tapes and all he hear is birds Everyone laughs cause he brings his own chair to the office Convinced that the cushions will give him steadier thoughts The muscles of the intellectuals are...

you know that statue that statue of baby jesus in the window in the window of the 99 cent store last night I saw the owner kiss it and whisper in its ear I was walking home from walgreen's and he did not hear me see him and on the very very next morni...

She lifted the monument in her monumental arms She was the Mother Superior with her carry-on luggage charms She was this androgynous powder nosed girl next door She had eaten her dog and she was back for more Back for more, back for more Oh she was back for mo...

A man inside a room is shaking hands with other men This is how it happens Our carefully laid plans Shake it, shake it baby Shake your ass out in that street You're gonna make us scream someday You're gonna make it big You love so deep, so tender You...

You have tamed me Now you must take me How am I supposed to be I don't have my thorns now But I feel them sprouting They'll grow right through if I don't watch them They'll grow right through even if I watch them And a sunset couldn't save me now These baobabs...

Come on bartender Won't you be more tender Give me two shots of whiskey And a beer chaser Love will be the death of me Love is so fickle Cause it starts with a flood And it ends with a tr-tr-tr-tr-tr-tr-tr-tr-trtrickle Come on bartender Just a little more ten...

who said I was original? who said I was allowed to sing as if I really sing to write as if I really write? who said that I could suddenly get up from underneath and walk away completely stumbling between each breath I breathe and walk away sublimely st...

I think of you and then i think of me and then i think of you and then i think of me and then i think i know but then i know i don't and then i think i should stop thinking and go to sleep i'm glad that i don't work at 9 to 5 and then i'm glad that i...

I know I say I'll go away but then I don't, I come right back and walk right smack into your lips and turn all black and blue and though I've seen the light so many times before I've also figured out the light is just a switch that I can turn on, I can t...

If I kiss you where it's sore If I kiss you where it's sore Will you feel better, better, better Will you feel anything at all Will you feel better, better, better Will you feel anything at all Born like sisters to this world In a town where blo...

Out of the quiet Out of the sunrise I hear the birdsong Give way to sirens I hear the voices Give way to silence It looks like fire But it’s just sunshine Waters are rising Forests are burning Hearts always hurt more While they are learning Sayi...

[Verse 1] All my love in black and white On this color photograph Sad, sad eyes, know too much You will always start to cry [Chorus] Why should I wait for tomorrow? Why should I wait for tomorrow? [Verse 2] When you left, I closed the door Closed my...

Whatchu got on top? I'll take two of that I'm chasing a story I heard When I was here last At the back of the class You pretended you never got lost Yeah, in the back of the class in the back of the bus Sittin out at the dance Always saying no thank...

He stumbled into faith and thought God, this is all there is? The pictures in his mind arose And began to breathe And all the gods and all the worlds Began colliding on a backdrop of blue Blue lips, blue veins He took a step, but then felt tired. He said, "I...

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 somewhere far probably drinking a whiskey I dating jack daniel’s and caleb - swiss miss, nicky - tea, nacho's with cocoa -...

Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love Don't tell your secret to anyone Because ideas are vulnerable As soon as you say your idea out loud Then it can go and live on its own And you will miss it oh so muc...

She was lying on the floor and counting stretch marks She hadn't been a virgin and he hadn't been a god So she named the baby Elvis To make up for the royalty he lacked And from then on it was turpentine and patches From then on it was cold Campbell's from th...

He was a husband who drove his wife home drunk from the parties He was a husband who drove his wife home And in the car he would gently lean her head on the side door window And in the bathroom he would hold her hair back and hope, saying; They build buil...

I met mata hari She was in no hurry The firing squad had their guns in the air My invitation said 'Bring your own shovel' I brought my own shovel B Y O S Bring your own shovel and shovel up the mess Oh, lately all my friends Clip their teeth with nail...

That's it, it's split - it won't recover Just frame the halves and call them brothers Find their fathers and their mothers If you remember who they are Over and over they call us their friends Can't we find something else to pretend? Like nobody's won a...

Carbon monoxide Soon I’ll go to sleep If I don’t got my socks on right They slide right off off my feet As I walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk Walk-a, walk, walk-a, walk, walk-a, walk Carbon monoxide As I take you home The first time I get...

I remember you well in the chelsea hotel You were talking so brave and so sweet Giving me head on the unmade bed While the limousines wait in the street Those were the reasons and that was new york We were running for the money and the flesh And that was calle...

I had a dream Crispy crispy Benjamin Franklin came over and babysat all four of my kids Then in my dream I told the doctor off he said "if you don't wanna do it Then you don't have to do it" He said "the truth is you'll be ok anyway" Then in my dream Crispy c...

Stop jerkin off and eat your chicken baby It's like a colony of hungry ants down here So I keep dancing with this deadweight round my ankles And it thickens every time I turn away There's something spartan in the way we choose our battles There's somethin...

May I do the un-troduction, Cinderella Shoe, shoe was Cinderella In this little cellar We grow like weeds Cause it's damp and dark And we chose to park right here Oh dear oh dear oh dea-ea-ea-ear Someone is bound To notice that we don't Blend in no m...

My rhyme ain't good just yet My brain and tongue just met And they ain't friends, so far My words don't travel far They tangle in my hair And tend to go nowhere They grow right back inside Right past my brain and eyes Into my stomach juice Where they...

You are so sweet Dancing to the beat There's a meat market down the street The boys and the girls watch each other eat You are so sweet, so sweet Dancing and moving to that beat, that beat There's a meat market down the street The boys and girls watc...

On the day that daniel Cowman stopped existing The world should've ended right then and there At precisely four-fifteen when he stopped existing The world should've ended How could it go on? How could it go on? How could it go on? Oh and I don't exist I don't...

There was a dead rat beneath the windows of my building Of my building, of my building And (a) children would point sticks at it And poke And (a) when it got itself all frozen dead the night before While Mr. Jones and Ms. Gonzalez were out having a good...

December starts on Sunday Next Sunday, won't you feel happier then? Turn your room upside down Turn your down upside Rumors have started that you are in love again Rumors that are completely unsubstantiated Come on and say you're sorry, Real sorry for...

Dog and pony Empty our Cabinet You never forget You never come back the same Each time you go up in flames Each time you begin to blame You never come back the same Just a little bit more love Oh, a little bit more love Just a little bit more love...

Down on Bowery they lose their Ball-eyes and their lip-mouths in the night, And stumbling through the streets they say, "Sir, do you got a light? And if you do then you're my friend, And if you don't then you're my foe, And if you are a deity of any sort...

After all, everything's been said and done I feel, i feel better now Come away, lay your hands at rest and close your eyes And say a prayer for those who've gone It's hard...to live... It's harder than it's ever been before The things that used to comfo...

In Dusseldorf i met a clown His nose, it was red In Gelterkinden i forgot to frown Then remembered again In Paris i saw a big fish Swimming slow in the seine It made me hopeful that someday our Water will be breathable again In Frankfurt i heard ein z...

Say goodbye Love again… I don’t want to, want to, want to, want to Go in circles, round the bend Until we are just friends again And then not even that Sometimes i almost can recall what it was like before we ever met Sometimes not even that I was car...

White lines on your mind Keep it steady You were never ready for the lies White lines on your mind Keep it steady You were never ready for the lies You don't have no doctor Robert You don't have no uncle Albert You don't even have good credit You can write b...

It’s like forgetting the words to your favorite song You can’t believe it You were always singing along It was so easy and the words so sweet You can’t remember You try to feel the beat Eet, eet, eet, eet Eet, eet, eet, eet You spent half of your life trying...

I thought about what you said And it's the end of the thought that really got in my head Be careful before you decide Be careful before you decide Risk only what you won't miss And all the rest you can leave for all the others to take You cannot make a...

(Shake it up) I never loved nobody fully Always one foot on the ground And by protecting my heart truly I got lost in the sounds I hear in my mind All these voices I hear in my mind all these words I hear in my mind all this music And it br...

I wish I'd see a field below i wish I'd hear a rooster crow But there are none who live downtown And so the day starts out so slow Again the sun was never called And darkness spreads over the snow Like ancient bruises I'm awake and feel the ache But I...

The piano is not firewood yet They try to remember but still they forget That the heart beats in threes Just like a waltz And nothing can stop you from dancing Rise from your cold hospital bed You're not dying Everyone knows you're going to live So yo...

I went flyin' out of my window I went flyin' out of my window Been caught doin' it once or twice But it feels so real nice Oh it feels so real nice Saw the earth and I saw the sky Saw the earth and I saw the sky Been caught doin' it once or twigh But it feels...

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 wetter version of the skies Let’s get a silver bullet trailer and have a baby boy I’ll safety-pin...

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 laughter So they jokingly nicknamed it the porridge Cause of a night that lake had turned to stic...

A man walks out of his apartment It is raining He's got no umbrella He starts running beneath the awnings trying to save his suit Tryin to dryin to tryin to dry but no good When he gets to the crowded subway platform he takes off both of his shoes He st...

Somewhere below the grand hotel There is a tunnel that leads down to hell Take the dumbwaiter, the laundry chute Then sneak through the hall past the boy's shining boots Then left at the courtyard through the old garden Where all the bellhops smoke with...

Eli, Eli, shelo yigamer le'olam Ha'chol veha'yam Rishrush shel ha'mayim Barak hashamayim T'filat ha-adam Ha'chol veha'yam Rishrush shel ha'mayim Barak hashamayim T'filat ha-adam 

I've heard there was a secret chord That David played and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this The fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah Hallelujah [x4] Your faith...

I've been looking at you all night long I've been looking at you all night long You with your street-walking shoes And your street-walking eyes I see nothing wrong But don't look at me that way baby, I can't help you My life is just a melody and chord...

He never ever saw it coming at all He never ever saw it coming at all He never ever saw it coming at all It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright It's alright, it's alright, it's alright Hey, open wide, here comes original sin Hey, open...

He never ever saw it coming at all... It's alright... Hey, open wide, here comes original sin... It's alright... No one's got it all... power to the people we don't want it, we want pleasure and the tv'stry to rape us and I guess that they're succeeding and...

Come in.. Come in.. Come into my world I've got to show show show you come into my bed I've got to know know know you I have dreams of orca whales and owls but I wake up in fear you will never be my, you will never be my fool will never be m...

How can I forget your love? How can I never see you again? There is a time and place for one more sweet embrace and there's a time - ooh - when it all - ooh - went wrong I guess you know by now that we will meet again somehow How -ow ohbaby how ca...

Hello, hello Calling a Karl Projectorinski To the front, over the cathedral You have won, dear sir May I congratulate you first Human, human of the year You won [x2] Why are you so scared You stand their shaking in your pew The icons are whispering to you Th...

I cut off my hair and went to sleep You were there, in my dream, nursing on a glass teat It was a party, you were sucking liquor-- On your jacket a VIP sticker It was a party, you were sucking liquor-- On your jacket a VIP sticker I peed in my pants and...

I want to sing to you my love My only love and happiness Don't be so blue so blue my love Take off your shoes take off my dress I want to sing to you my love My only love and happiness Don't be so blue so blue my love This too shall pass this too shall pass B...

All the Holocaust deniers To a bathhouse warm and quiet Complimentary soap, complimentary haircut And gas them up until they know that All the ink stains on their wrists mean business And God is the almighty witness I wish they'd cure the friendly neighbors O...

Jessica, wake up. Jessica, wake up. It's February again, we must get older, so wake up. I can't write a song for you. I'm out of melodies. I can't write a song for you, but I am asking please, Jessica, wake up. Jessica wake up. It's February again. It...

It's just like the movies, i eat from the trees If i do not open the curtains then i cannot see All the people run by... My heart eats beats... My heart eats love... You are mistaken cause i do not bite Over the williamsburg bridge on a bike And if he loves...

These kids I met their clothes drawn on with crayons there were from my neighborhood once and I loved my childhood We're ne'er gone out yet and on our way how can you stand it that guy on the radio and he's singing about kids' stuff embarrassed in th...

We keep on burying our dead We keep on planting their bones in the ground But they won't grow, the sun doesn't help The rain doesn't help If my garden would have a fence Then the rabbits couldn't just come in And sit on the grass and eat all the flowers And s...

Lady sing the blues so well As if she mean it As if it's hell down here In the smoke-filled world Where the jokes are cold They don't laugh at jokes They laugh at tragedies Corner street societies But they believe her They never leave her While she sings she...

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 doctor calls after some routine tests No one’s laughing at God When it’s gotten re...

Too much time spent trying to crawl into a hole Trying to crawl out of that hole I followed a path of a piece of a bread, traveling From one little sparrow's beak To another little sparrow's beak He picked it up, flew with it and then dropped it, then...

Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes made of ticky-tacky Little boxes, little boxes Little boxes, all the same There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same And...

She had long brown hair All down her breast Made me think about my future Made me think about my past She was so pretty As pretty as can be And I thought: "My god, why shouldn't it be me?" Her skin was tight, her manner was free She gave me that look...

I don't care that flowers grow for you and me...and me You don't know what love is till you see her standing there A web of skin and nails and hair And bones and bones And thoughts rush in and Arch your head, you think you are alive But you are dead, you keep...

There was a love affair in this building the kind of love affair which every respectable building must keep as a legend Slowly festering through an innocent by the way or have you heard he was perfect except for the fact that he was an engineer and mothers pre...

There are too many questions There is not one solution There is no resurrection There is so much confusion And the love profusion You make me feel You make me feel And the love vibration You make me feel You make me shine There are too many option...

Was a bright, and sweet, and hot summer day The day I didn't love you anymore Some little cue wound up my poor heart which had stopped As I walked to the grocery store All the people lingered although they didn't know And they smiled at me as I passed 'Cause...

oh, an incurable humanist you are... let's go to the movies I will hum you a song about nothing at all... oh, an incurable humanist you are... let's go to the movies I will hum you a song about nothing at all... Sit down class, open up your textbooks to pa...

I didn't find the lucky penny So I flipped it over and left it for some one else to find And a dime just in time for the little kid behind me to pick it up and yell: Hey, mom! I found a dime! Then I turned around corner and I dropped another dollar J...

I know that you cannot be here I know that you are not mine, no Looking out the window at another window I see toenails changing colors Like the leaves of fall If you often smile but often don't smile Which do you do more often--smile or not? I dreamt a hydra...

My eyes are bifocal My hands are sec-jointed I live in the future In my pre-war apartment And I count all my blessing I have friends in high places And I'm upgraded daily All my wires without traces Hooked into machine Hooked into machine Hooked into machine...

I am braiding records into my hair needles and record players, everything’s a possible record cover or a possible name for a band that I will never have… cause I sing my songs all by myself all to myself, by myself I am cute but I’m not in a band where...

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 And begins his quiet ascension Without anyone's sturdy instruction To a place of no religion Has found a path to our alikeness His words are...

Miss Marry Ann Kept her man In porcupine gloves, in porcupine gloves And on that day As scheduled They made porcupine love, porcupine love So stiff and stuck and prickly He came in and then back out quickly But lord not any quicker than according to plan Like...

I'm a mermaid but I've sold my voice for a couple of feet and they always bleed when I go walking in the road I'm a mermaid but I've sold my voice for a couple of feet and they always bleed when I go walking in these streets and I once saw a most b...

hush, little baby, don't say a word papa's gonna buy you a mockingbird and if that mockingbird don't mock real well then papa's gonna buy you a freedom bell oh, and if that freedom bell don't ring papa's gonna buy you a cubic zirconia ring oh, and if tha...

Life inside the music box ain't easy The malots hit the gears are always turning And everyone inside the mechanism Is yearning To get out And sing another melody completely So different from the one they're always singing I close my eyes and think that i have...

My man don't treat me right, Don't kiss me sweet goodnight. 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, And he leaves me such a mess. They say I'm cursed, but I'm blessed. Coz he loves m...

Down in Paris they lose their ballads and their lipped-mouths in the night And stumbling through the street they say: "Sir do you've got a light? And if you do then you're my friend And if you don't then you're my foe And if you are a deity of any sort th...

She sets her alarm Five minutes to midnight And wakes just in time To greet the new year Remembers the kisses Remembers the laughter And all that's gone away She shuffles around Turning the lights on Goes to the kitchen Gets the champagne Opens the...

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 don't speak for us I'll take a quiet life A handshake of carbon monoxide With no alarms a...

This is how I feel right now Obsolete manuscript No one reads and no one needs Pages lost, incomplete No one knows what it means Minds grow dark, so suddenly I was lost on your street Hey I'm talking to myself I can hear you listening in To my though...

The food that I’m eating Is suddenly tasteless I know I’m alone now I know what it tastes like So break me to small parts Let go in small doses But spare some for spare parts There might be some good ones Like you might make a dollar I’m inside your mouth now...

I'm the king's thirty second son Born to him in thirty second's time Born to him the night still young Born to him with two eyebrows on And that's all I was wearing When I woke up staring at the world My mom had been a rather crazy queen But not at all...

Oh, Marcello How I wonder La Madonna she tell the truth She's been saying I'll have a baby When he grow up he become a killer I'm just a soul whose intentions are good Oh lord please don't let me be misunderstood Understood Oh, Marcello Never though...

Я много лет пиджак ношу. Давно потёрся и не нов он. И я зову к себе портного и перешить пиджак прошу. Я говорю ему шутя: "Перекроите всё иначе. Сулит мне новые удачи искусство кройки и шитья". Я пошутил. А он пиджак серьёзно так перешивает, а сам-то всё пере...

I remembered you older and taller But you're younger and smaller So who's gonna call her and say That you're back again? And all the lies, they were wiser And wise were the lies And the lies were on fire And the fires were put out just to be lit again...

This is how it works It feels a little worse Than when we drove our hearse Right through that screaming crowd While laughing up a storm Until we were just bone Until it got so warm That none of us could sleep And all the styrofoam Began to melt away...

Your stitches are all out But your scars are healing wrong And the helium room inside your room has come undone And it's pushing up at the ceiling And the flickering lights it cannot get beyond Oh everyone takes turns Now it's yours to play the part And they'...

Got me a pair of dreary eyes Pale color blue upon pale color white Sometimes they cry Sometimes they dry Pale color blue upon pale color white Got me a pair of dreary eyes And they tell no lies I got me some lips but they taste no sweet I got me some...

I am Down the road and up the hill I wait for you still Wires 'round my fingers Potentially lovely Perpetually human Suspended and open Open Open I am Through the woods and past the trains I wait here in vain Scrubbing out the stains again Pote...

I could’ve settled down in Paris But the man who came for me Took me by the hand And said it was time to leave Margaret atwood, she could not stop him Virginia woolf, she could not stop him The truth is I wanted to go He is all I know, he is all I know… I got...

She's the kind of girl who'll smash herself down in the night She's the kind of girl who'll fracture her mind till it's light She'll break her own heart and you know she'll break your heart too So darling, let go of her hand She's been skipping days, spilling...

The grave diggers getting stuck in the machine Pickings getting slim, slimmer I hear them say my name Regin-ah, regin-ah, regin-a-ah Yes I'm putting the boulder to my ear And I still can't hear Whadya think I was an amateur Playin' with my temperature... If...

Poor little rich boy, all the couples have gone You wish that they hadn’t, you don’t wanna be alone But they wanna kiss and they got homes of their own Poor little rich boy all the couples have gone, they’ve gone, they’ve gone And you don’t love your girlfrie...

If you're never sorry Then you can't be forgiven If you're not forgiven Then you can't be forgotten If you're not forgotten Then you can live forever If you live forever Then you'll begin to dream of death. Death. Death. Death. Ezra pound sat upon my bed Aske...

All of the prisoners serving life sentences Wait for the earth to suddenly shake For the walls to somehow suddenly come crumbling, tumbling And for the bars to somehow magically break Oh there's nothing wrong with them that a thousand bucks can't fix That a t...

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...

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 Tri...

All my little plans and schemes Lost like some forgotten dreams Seems like all I really was doing Was waiting for you Just like little girls and boys Playing with their little toys Seems like all they really were doing Was waiting for love Don't need...

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 choru...

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 a...

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 do do Do do do do do do Come home Take off my riot gear Put on my smoke jacket But in the library of...

Condescending down the stairs I'm condescending down the stairs I look out for a moment Condescending down the stairs I'm condescending down the stairs I look down at the bottles I just know I got something coming If I got anything coming at all I jus...

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 s...

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 bre...

Come on inside and i’ll show you your brother He’s got enough money to buy a new father He’s got enough money to bother Somebody else Solder two wires together Somebody else Remember that mouthful you spat in his mouthful He never forgave you, he’s so...

School is out And I walk the empty hallways I walk alone Alone as always There's so many lucky pennies Lying on the floor But where the hell are all the lucky people I can't see them any more And there's such a nasty smell In the bathroom The people float by W...

So open your pocket and show me your stash a stash of cash in flesh for a rainy day you said there might come a day when you got nothing to say nothing to think theres left to drink nothing to eat you be your own piece of meat and no one can take that...

The sellers of flowers buy up old roses They pull off dead petals, like old heads of lettuce And sell 'em as new ones, for cheaper and fairer But they die by the morning, so who is the winner Not the roses, not the buyers, not the sellers, maybe winter...

There are those boys with earthly eyes Their eyes are like the ground You walk and walk, kickin' up dirt But they don't make a sound And when they kiss you, they sometimes leave 'em open To make sure you don't drown Yeah, the sweetest eyes, the truest e...

His destiny was just too big to spend So he broke it into smaller bills and change By the time he'd try to buy the things he needed He had spent it all on Lucy's and weed and He had spent it all on chips and Coca-Cola He had spent it all on chocolate and...

I must have left a thousand times But every day begin the same Cause there's a small town in my mind How can leave without hurting every one who made me? How can leave without hurting every one who made me? Oh baby, baby it's all about the moon I wish y...

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 bracelet not a shoelace, not an old friend not a new friend in the faces of the crowd and the...

Somedays aren't yours at all, They come and go As if they're someone else's days They come and leave you behind someone else's face And it's harsher than yours And colder than yours They come in all quiet Sweep up and then they leave And you don't hear a sing...

Summer in the city means cleavage cleavage cleavage And I start to miss you, baby, sometimes I’ve been staying up and drinking in a late night establishment Telling strangers personal things Summer in the city, I’m so lonely lonely lonely So I went to a prote...

It seemed gray clouds looks over, like lavender, then scats But the hedge sheep rot in the field in the dark See the house window of warmth, and a glow in the distance Bring in the night, at a passenger at sunset But she still waiting for the treat like a...

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...

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 were pink and green Hey remember that month when I only ate boxes of tangeri...

Come downstairs, I'm buzzing you come downstairs, I got nothing to do come downstairs now come downstairs now come downstairs now You know there's a legend and it goes like this if you kiss the lamppost between 224th street and 225th in the Bronx when...

You went into the kitchen cupboard And got yourself another hour And you gave half of it to me We sat there looking at the faces Of these strangers in the pages 'Til we knew them mathematically They were in our minds Until forever But we didn't mind...

It started out as a feeling Which then grew into a hope Which then turned into a quiet thought Which then turned into a quiet word And then that word grew louder and louder Till it was a battle cry I'll come back When you call me No need to say goodb...

The clocks were asleep and asleep’s how we found them we found them and wound them again but they didn’t last us till morning and warning that you never should force mechanical things they are not meant for hardship, they’ll snap if you tighten and wind t...

joseph and mary are so bad kissing in the park, kissing in the park, kissing in the park he practices dentistry without a license but it’s alright cause mary read the books and she’s got his back they’re saving up for a trip to france gonna leave the baby...

Father, father, father, father, father, father, father, father Yes Father, father, father, father, father, father, father, father Yes The floor heard everything The floor heard everything The floor heard everything Yes The floor heard everything...

The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them away Some of the bulbs never opened quite fully They might so I'm waiting and staying awake Things I have loved I'm allowed to keep I'll never know if I go to sleep The papers around me are...

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 just strangers, I haven't met them yet I know the morning is wiser than the evening I know th...

The mustard musketeers Travelled the world calming the fears Of the ladies in waiting Twas a glorious time Swords and swoons and magic harpoons And white horseback riding The mustard musketeers Huffed and puffed til they puffed away Everyone's sorrows...

All the power of my voice can't compare With the power of quiet whisper. Still, it's a choice, and I choose to rage, Instead of ever quietly listening. I can't hear you. I can't hear you. I can't hear you anymore. I can't hear you. I can't hear you. I can't h...

He went to visit an old, old friend And it was long, long overdue And though they stayed up very late They never talked out of turn or tune And every time they'd say goodbye Well he'd just stay another while They started from a distant place And were so...

You’re like a party somebody threw me You taste like birthday You look like New Years You’re like a big parade through town You leave such a mess but you’re so fun. Tell all the neighbors to start knocking down walls To grab their guitars and run out to...

Пока Земля ещё вертится, пока ещё ярок свет, Господи, дай Ты каждому, чего у него нет: Умному дай голову, трусливому дай коня, Дай счастливому денег и не забудь про меня. Пока Земля ещё вертится, Господи, Твоя власть. Дай рвущемуся к власти навластвоваться вс...

The soup, the soup, the soup, the soup... The soup was hot and split pea and on the stove And michael and marry and bugsy and buster were occupied The pictures as clear as an illusion in their mind And the plan was foolproof but there was so much to do First...

Don't let me get 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 What if the sword kills the pen What if the god kills the man And if he does it with love W...

The trapper and the furrier went walking through paradise And all the animals lay clawless and toothless before them And all the mother's stepped away from their babies Leaving them open and easy to handle The trapper and the furrier went walking through p...

Men who shoot their horses Are the same men who would like to kiss your hand On a day, in the bathrooms On the bedrooms, and the, and the Men who shoot their horses Are the same men who would go and shoot a friend Save them, kiss them The Virgin Queen...

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 'Cause everything keeps changing Life is always raging Beyond the walls and cages Everybody c...

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 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...

It's so much easier than you think, you try so hard And every time you get it wrong, you get it right You get it wrong but you get it right You get it right The mind runs fast Your thoughts are louder than your words And every time you turn around I...

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...

Two sisters went to the river bend Went too soon, they're liable to drown Parked their cars at the edge of the town Slipped off their gowns and went slithering down One was the poet's love One was the poet's love One had a fire in her breast One was th...

Mrs. E Roosevelt never heard me shoot my gun Mrs. E Roosevelt didn't even know I owned one Somewhere between the cobblestone floor and the slated wooden ceiling Cuddling my semi-automatic, what a very fuzzy feeling Oh...there's nothing like emptying a cart...

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 Bo...

They made a statue of us And it put it on a mountaintop Now tourists come and stare at us Blow bubbles with their gum Take photographs have fun, have fun They'll name a city after us And later say it's all our fault Then they'll give us a talking to Then they...

[Spoken] Jenny Um I don't know if that's you but that didn't sound like you But you know, it's a funny world where machines can replace people Whoever that was Um Tell Jenny that Regina called her And P.S. I can't believe what he did [Sung] All the...

I found a wallet I found a wallet Inside were pictures of your small family You are so young Your hair dark brown You had been born in 1953 Your winter birthday Was stamped on the plastic Of a license so recently expired I was so tired as I walked in my door...

I was sleeping by the wasteside of tomorrow But its better than sleeping by the wasteside of today All the barbershops and funeral-homes were open And the customers were coming and the business was doing great I was sleeping by the wasteside of tomorrow Just...

I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping While my guitar gently weeps I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping Still my guitar gently weeps I don't know why nobody told you How to unfold your love I don't know how someone controlled you Th...

Bear : Regina...Regina... Reg : What? Bear : When is that song gonna start? Reg : Which song? Bear : The song that goes like 'Da na na na na na na na' Reg : Oh...it's gonna start in a minute. You just gotta wait. Bear : Ok Regina! Start it already! Reg...

Come downstairs I'll put flowers in your hair Won't you forgive me now?... Somedays are like woolen gloves You feel warm but you can't touch things properly Can't hold on to glass Can't hold on to rocks Can't hold on to love While wearing woolen gloves...

Never give up loving Unless you have to Never give up loving Unless you must Cause it will haunt you In the future Will try to crawl into your bed at night Never leave your lover Unless he makes you By being cold and Awful mean Even then you'll probably Alway...

The animals, the animals Trapped, trapped, trapped 'till the cage is full The cage is full Stay awake In the dark, count mistakes The light was off but now it's on Searching underground for a bit of sun The sun is out, the day is new And everyone is...

I kissed your lips and I tasted blood I asked you what happened and you said, There'd been a fight. You said I've been fighting for your honor but you wouldn't understand I said hold on your honor I'll get ice for your hand Oh you been fighting for my hon...