Regina Spektor - Summer in the city

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Regina Spektor - Laughing with

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 real late
And their kid’s not back from the party yet

No one laughs at God
When their airplane start to uncontrollably shake
No one’s laughing at God
When they see the one they love, hand in hand with someone else
And they hope that they’re mistaken

No one laughs at God
When the cops knock on their door
And they say we got some bad news, sir
No one’s laughing at God
When there’s a famine or fire or flood

*Chorus*
But God can be funny
At a cocktail party when listening to a good God-themed joke, or
Or when the crazies say He hates us
And they get so red in the head you think they’re ‘bout to choke
God can be funny,
When told he’ll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious
Ha ha
Ha ha

No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one’s laughing at God
When they’ve lost all they’ve got
And they don’t know what for

No one laughs at God on the day they realize
That the last sight they’ll ever see is a pair of hateful eyes
No one’s laughing at God when they’re saying their goodbyes
But God can be funny
At a cocktail party when listening to a good God-themed joke, or
Or when the crazies say He hates us
And they get so red in the head you think they’re ‘bout to choke
God can be funny,
When told he’ll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious

No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one laughing at God in hospital
No one’s laughing at God in a war
No one’s laughing at God when they’re starving or freezing or so very
poor

No one’s laughing at God
No one’s laughing at God
No one’s laughing at God
We’re all laughing with God

(sursa)

Regina Spektor - Eet

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

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet, eet, eet, eet
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeteeet, eet, eet, eet

You spent half of your life trying to fall behind
You're using your headphones to drown out your mind
It was so easy, and the words so sweet
You can't remember
You try to move your feet
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet, eet, eet, eet
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeteeet, eet, eet, eet

Someone's deciding whether or not to steal
He opens the window just to feel the chill
He hears that outside a small boy just starting to cry
'Cause it's his turn but his brother won't let him try

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 move your feet

It was so easy and the words so sweet
You can't remember, you try to feel the beat

(sursa)

Regina Spektor - Fidelity

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 breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
It breaks my heart

And suppose I never met you
Suppose we never fell in love
Suppose I never ever let you kiss me so sweet and so soft
Suppose I never ever saw you
Suppose we never ever called
Suppose I kept on singing love songs just to break my own fall
Just to break my fall
Just to break my fall
Break my fall
Break my fall

All my friends say that of course its gonna get better
Gonna get better
Better better better better
Better better better

I never love 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 breaks my heart
It breaks my heart
Breaks my
Heart
Breaks my heart

(sursa)

Regina Spektor - audio

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Regina Spektor

Născută la Moscova, în 18 februarie 1980, Regina e o interpretă, compozitoare şi pianistă evreico-americană, a cărei muzică e asociată cu mişcarea anti-folk, având centrul în New York East Village.
A învăţat să cânte la pian, exersând pe un Petrof dăruit mamei sale de bunicul ei. Expunerea ei la muzică s-a făcut şi prin intermediul tatălui ei care, ca şi la noi în România în perioada comunistă, făcuse rost şi schimb de discuri sau benzi cu Beatles, Queen sau The Moody Blues.
În plină Perestroikă, în 1989, Regina a lăsat şi Petrof-ul şi discurile în urmă şi a emigrat cu familia în SUA, via Austria şi Italia, stabilindu-se în Bronx.
Trecând prin studiile sale muzicale, Regina a fost iniţial interesată numai de muzica clasică, dar apoi a aplecat urechea muzicală şi către hip-hop, rock şi punk.
Spektor spunea că ar fi creat 700 de piese, dar că foarte rar le şi scrie... şi că ea nu ar fi vrut neapărat să scrie cântece, dar că acestea pur şi simplu îi vin în mod natural. Piesela sale nu sunt de obicei autobiografice, ci mai degrabă îşi trag seva din personaje şi întâmplări plăsmuite de imaginaţia sa.
Influenţele resimţite în muzica sa merg de la muzica clasică la cea iudaică, rusească şi până la hip-hop, punk sau jazz.
Regina posedă o voce şi o scală vocală întinsă de care se foloseşte pe deplin.
Ascultaţi de exemplu în piesa Fidelity ce stopuri din glotă face...
Melodiile sale au ajus să fie mediatizate prin seriale de genul CSI sau Grey's Anatomy.