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He stumbled into faith and thought
This is all
There is
The pictures in his mind arose
And began
To breathe
And all the gods in all the worlds
Began colliding on a backdrop of blue

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

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

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
You pull away when you're inside

So young

Aching to pupate
Aching to pup-p-p-pate
[repeats 4x]
Pu-pupate, pu pate,
Pu-pate, pu-pupate, pu pa-ate...

I should peddle butterflies
There's a shortage in the city,

ll 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 keep trying to row away, row away

in another town
don't let me forget
in another town
mouth full of regrets
in another town
please, please place final bets
in another town
i'll know...

I must go on standing
You can't break that which isn't yours
I, oh, 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

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 atrophying
nobody's running, nobody's hiding
they're lit by a light that isn't even the sun
lit by a light that isn't even the moon

you know that statue

that statue of baby jesus

in the window

in the window of the 99 cent store

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 more, some more, yes please, some more

Her gym teacher thought himself a sweat-socked demi-god

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 have tamed me
Now you must take me
How am I supposed to be?
I don't have my thorns now
And I feel them sprouting
They'll grow right through
If I don't watch it
They'll grow right through

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

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

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

Dum da dum da dum da dum da dum
Dum da dum da dum da dum da dum
Dum da dum da dum da dum da dum

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

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

he stumbled into faith and thought,
this is all there is
the pictures in his mind arose
and began to breathe
and all the gods in all the worlds
began colliding on a backdrop of blue

blue lips

he stumbled into faith and thought,
this is all there is
the pictures in his mind arose
and began to breathe
and all the gods in all the worlds
began colliding on a backdrop of blue

blue lips

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 names 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 the can
And they were just two jerks playing with matches

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.

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 buildings oh they build buildings oh they build buildings
So tall these days

Carbon monoxide
Soon i’ll go to sleep
If I don’t got my socks on right
They slide right off of 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

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 crispy Benjamin Franklin and the doctor went and had a talk with my boss

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

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

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,

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

I had a dream--
Crispy, crispy Benjamin Franklin came over,
Baby-sat all four of my kids.

Then in my dream,
I told the doctor off.
He saidm, "If you don't want to do it,
then you don't have to do it."

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
then please don't go.

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

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

אלי, אלי, שלא יגמר לעולם
החול והים
רישרוש של המים
ברק השמים
תפילת האדם

החול והים
רישרוש של המים

If you're never sorry,
then you cant be forgiven,
if you're not forgiven,
then you cant be forgotten.

If you can't be forgotten,
then you can live forever,
if you live forever,

Your stitches are all out, but your scars are healing wrong
And the helium balloon 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're sitting all around you holding copies of your chart
And the misery inside their eyes is synchronized reflecting into yours

(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 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

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

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 his clothes all cool

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 I could hear the laughter
so they jokingly nicknamed it the porridge
cause overnight that lake had turned as thick as butter
but the local kids would still go swimming, drinking
saying that to them it doesn't matter

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 steps right into somebody's fat loogie

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 al-right, it's al-right, it's al-right, it's al-right
It's al-right, it's al-right, it's al-right

Hey, open wide here comes original sin

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 al-right, it's al-right, it's al-right, it's al-right
It's al-right, it's al-right, it's al-right

Hey, open wide here comes original sin

How
How can I forget you now?
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
You know by now

Hello, hello
Calling a Karl Projektorinski to the front
Of the cathedral, you have won
Dear sir
May I congratulate you first?
Oh, what an honor

Human!

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

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 blood

All the Holocaust deniers
To a bath house warm and quiet
Complimentary soap
Complimentary haircut
And gas 'em up until they know that
All the ink stains on our wrist mean business
And God is the almighty witness

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,

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

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

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

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

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 they've been there before

My eyes are bifocal
My hands are sub-jointed
I live in the future
In my pre-war apartment

And I count all my blessings
I have friends in high places
And I'm upgraded daily

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

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

Miss Marry Ann
kept her man
in porcupine gloves, in porcupine gloves
and on that day
as scheduled
they made porcupine love, porcupine love

I'm a mermaid
but I've sold my voice
for a pair of feet
that tend to bleed
when I go walking in the road

I'm a mermaid
but I've sold my voice

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 found me

It cost me a lot but there's one thing that I've got
It's my man, it's my man
Cold or wet, tired you bet
All of this I'll soon forget with my man

He's not much on looks, he's no hero out of books
It's my man.
Two or three girls has he that he likes as well as me

Down in Paris they lose their ballas and their lipdamales in the night
And stumbling through the street they say, Sir do you have 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 then please don't go

Ne Me Quitte Pas mon cher
Ne Me Quitte Pas ah ah ah

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
'Til it was a battle cry
I'll come back when you call me
No need to say goodbye

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

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

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

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

Ahhh

Too much time spent
Trying to crawl into a hole
And trying to crawl out of that hole

I followed a path of a piece of bread traveling
From one little sparrow's beak

After all, everything'd been said and done
I feel, I feel better now
Come away, lay your hands and rest and close your eyes
say a prayer for those who've gone.

It's hard, it's hard,
It's hard, it's hard.
To live, to live,

Someone said the local lake had been enchanted
Others said it must have been the weather
The neighbours were trying to keep it quiet
But I swear, I could hear the laughter
So they jokingly nicknamed it ‘The Porridge’
It was overnight that lake turned as thick as butter
But the local kids would still go swimming, drinking
Saying that to them it doesn’t matter

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 ran down the street

All the Holocaust deniers
To a bathhouse warm and quiet
Complimentary soap, complimentary haircut
And gas them up until they know that

All their ink stains on their wrists mean business
And God is the almighty witness
I wish they'd cure the friendly neighbors

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 mead

Da da da da da da
Da da da da da da

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…

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

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

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 girlfriend
You don’t love your girlfriend
And you think that you should but she thinks that she’s fat

Regina Spektor - Pound Of Flesh

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 begin to dream of death, death, death, death, death.

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

There's nothing wrong with them
That a thousand bucks can't fix
That a thousand arms can't hold down

you dont know but thats ok
you might find me anyway
dont you know that i belong
arm in arm with you baby

in a town thats cold and grey
We will have a sunny day
Don't you know that i belong

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

she will kiss til your lip bleeds
but she will not take her dress off
americano, tropicano
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
shouldve been with the state

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

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

She opened her pocket
And showed me her stash
A stash of cash and flesh
For a rainy day
She said, there might come a day
When you’ve just got nothing to say
Nothing to think
And there’s nothing left to drink

There are those boys with earthly eyes
Their eyes are like the ground
You walk and walk
Kicking up dirt
But they don't make a sound

And when they kiss you, they sometimes leave 'em open
Just to make sure you don't drown

His destiny was just too big to spend
So he broke it into smaller bills and change
By the time he tried to buy the things he needed
He had spent it all on loosies and weed and
He had spent it all on chips and Coca-Cola
He had spent it all on chocolate and vanilla
He had spent it all and didn't even feel it
He had spent it all and didn't even feel it

I must've lived a thousand times
But every day begins the same
'Cause there's a small town in my mind
How can I leave without hurting everyone that made me?
How can I leave without hurting everyone that made me?

Oh, baby, baby, it's all about the moon
I wish you wouldn't have broken my camera

Somedays aren't yours at all
They come and go as if they're someone elses days
They come and leave you behind some elses 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 single floor board creak

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 protest just to rub up against strangers
And I did feel like coming but I also felt like crying

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 tangerines
So cheap and juicy, tangerines

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

You went into the kitchen cupboard
Got yourself another hour
And you gave half of it to me
We sat there looking at the faces
Of these stranges in the pages
'Til we knew 'em mathematically

They were in our minds

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
'Til it was a battle cry

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.

Carbon monoxide
Soon I'll go to slee-ee-ee-eep
If I don't got my socks on right
They slide right off of my fee-ee-ee-eet
As I
Walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk-a, walk
Walk-a, walk, walk-a, walk, walk-a, walk

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.

Пока Земля ещё вертится, пока ещё ярок свет,
Господи, дай же 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 всласть.
Дай передышку щедрому хоть до исхода дня,

Men who shoot their horses are the
Same men who would like to kiss your hand
(You wait in the ballrooms and the bedroom and the bathroom)
Men who shoot their horses are the
Same men who will go and shoot a friend.
(Save him from chemo husband from chemo)

The virgin queen,

I found a wallet,
I found a wallet
Inside were pictures of your small family
You were 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 through my door

You step on all my parts
And then you walk right out the door
And I know that your
Love ain't never
Comin' back no more

Time is all around
Except inside my clock

C G Am G
Two birds on a wire
Am D F
One tries to fly away
G
And the other
C G
Watches him close

Mrs. E. Roosevelt never heard me shoot my gun
La, la, la
Mrs. E. Roosevelt didn't even knew I owned one
La, la, la
Somewhere between the cobblestone floor and the slated wooden ceiling
La, la, la
Cuddling my semi-automatic--what a very fuzzy feeling
La, la

They made a statue of us
And it put it on a mountain top
Now tourists come and stare at us
Blow bubbles with their gum
Take photographs for fun, for fun

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

I found a wallet
I found a wallet
inside were pictures of your small family
you were so young
your hair dark brown
you had been born in nineteen fifty-three

your winter birthday

Down in Bowery they lose their ballads
And their lipped mouths in the night
And stumbling through the street 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 then please don't go

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 the ground for a bitter song
The sun is out, the day is new

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»

Слушайте слова!
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

This is how it works / Вот как это работает
It feels a little worse / Это было немного хуже
Than when we drove our hearse / Чем когда мы вели наш катафалк
Right through that screaming crowd / Прямо через ту кричащую толпу
While laughing up a storm / Пока смеялся шторм
Until we were just bone / Пока мы были словно кость
Until it got so warm / Пока не стало так жарко
That none of us could sleep / Что ни один из нас не мог спать

You...are...so...sweet...
Dan...cing...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

Стихи Булата Окуджавы

Посвящено Ж.Болотовой

Я много лет пиджак ношу.
Давно потерся и не нов он.
И я зову к себе портного
и перешить пиджак прошу.

Apres Moi (оригинал Regina Spektor )

I must go on standing
You can't break that which isn't yours
I, oh, must go on standing
I'm not my own, it's not my choice

Be afraid of the lame

На Бауэри в Нью-Йорке ночью все теряют все подряд
И спотыкаясь, спрашивают у прохожих прикурить
И если есть, то ты мой друг
А если нет, то ты мой враг
И если ты святой иль бог, то поболтаем до утра

Ne me quitte pas mon cher, ne me quitte pas