Regina Spektor Quotes

On the radio We heard November Rain That solo's awful long But it's a good refrain

He was perfect except for the fact that he was an engineer And mothers prefer doctors And lawyers <p> Yet despite this imperfection He was clean-looking and respectable-looking And you'll never find a mother Who doesn't appreciate a natural man

A man destined to fry Can never ever ever die... In any other way but frying.<p> Lucky that I'm dying By hanging and not drowning.

I'm the king's thirty-second son There's thirty-one others just like me There's thirty-one others on the way There's thirty-one others after that...

They'll name a city after us And later say it's all our fault…

No, this is how it works — You peer inside yourself You take the things you like And try to love the things you took And then you take that love you made And stick it into some Someone else's heart Pumping someone else's blood And walking arm in arm You hope it don't get harmed But even if it does You'll just do it all again.

Pickle jars are just pickle jars, and pickles are just pickles.

Water, salt, cucumbers, garlic and

Leaves become most beautiful when they're about to die When they're about to fall from trees When they're about to dry

The world's got a nosebleed, it said And we're flooding, but we keep on cutting the trees and the forests! And we keep on paying those freaks on the TV Who claim they will save us, but want to enslave us, and Sweating like demons, they scream through our speakers But we leave the sound on 'cause silence is harder, and No one's the killer and no one's the martyr The world that has made us can no longer contain us And prophets are silent and rotting away.

Living in your pre-war apartment Soon to be your post-war apartment

On the day that Daniel Cowman stopped existing The world should have ended right then and there At precisely four-fifteen when he stopped existing The world should have ended How could it go on?

Imagine you go away On a business trip one day And when you come back home Your children have grown And you never made your wife moan

Try it again, breathing's just a rhythm

How could it go on when I don't exist? I don't exist... So now that we've got that straight Doesn't mean that I can fly Doesn't mean I that I can go do whatever I want.