don’t you worry, there my honey we might not have any money but we’ve got our love to pay the bills
maybe I think you’re cute and funny, maybe I wanna do what bunnies do with you, if you know what I mean
Oh, let’s get rich and buy our parents homes in the South of France let’s get rich and give everybody nice sweaters and teach them how to dance let’s get rich and build our house on a mountain making everybody look like ants from way up there, you and I, you and I, you and I,
well you might be a bit confused and you might be a little bit bruised but baby how we spoon like no one else so I will help you read those books if you will soothe my worried looks and we will put the lonesome on the shelf
oh lets get rich and buy our parents homes in the South of France let’s get rich and give everybody nice sweaters and teach them how to dance let’s get rich and build our house on a mountain making everybody look like ants from way up there you and I, you and I, you and I
oh, lets get rich and buy our parents homes in the south of France let’s get rich and give everybody nice sweaters and teach them how to dance let’s get rich and build our house on a mountain making everybody look like ants from way up there you and I, you and I, you and I
Dan Romer with Ingrid Michaelson (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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 trying to dry and to try and 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 and everyone who sees him says “ewww” everyone who sees him says “ewww”
but he doesn’t care cause last night he got a visit from the ghost of corporate future the ghost said, take off both your shoes whatever chances you get especially when they’re wet he also said
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 your children have grown and you never made your wife moan and
people make you nervous you’d think the world was ending and everybody’s features have somehow started blending and everything is plastic and everyone’s sarcastic and all your food is frozen, it needs to be defrosted you’d think the world was ending you’d think the world was ending you’d think the world was ending right now you’d think the world was ending you’d think the world was ending you’d think the world was ending right now
well maybe you should just drink a lot less coffee and never ever watch the ten o’clock news maybe you should kiss someone nice or lick a rock, or both
maybe you should cut your own hair cause that can be so funny it doesn’t cost any money and it always grows back, hair grows even after you’re dead and
people are just people they shouldn’t make you nervous the world is everlasting, it’s coming and it’s going if you don’t toss your plastic the street won’t be so plastic and if you kiss somebody then both of you’ll get practice the world is everlasting put dirtballs in your pocket put dirtballs in your pocket and take off both your shoes cause people are just people people are just people people are just people like you people are just people people are just people people are just people like you
the world is everlasting it’s coming and it’s going the world is everlasting it’s coming and it’s going it’s coming and it’s going
Spektor was born in Moscow, Soviet Union in 1980 to a musical Russian Jewish family. Her father, Ilya Spektor, is a photographer and amateurviolinist. Her mother, Bella Spektor, was a music professor in a Soviet college of music and now teaches at a public elementary school inMount Vernon, New York.[1] She has a brother Barry (Bear), who was featured in track 7, “* * *”, or “Whisper”, of her 2004 album, Soviet Kitsch.
She learned how to play piano by practicing on a Petrofupright that was given to her mother by her grandfather.
She was also exposed to the music of rock and roll bands such as The Beatles, Queen, and The Moody Blues by her father, who obtained such recordings in Eastern Europe and traded cassettes with friends in the Soviet Union. The family left the Soviet Union in 1989, when Regina was nine and a half, during the period of Perestroika, when Soviet citizens were permitted to emigrate. Regina had to leave her piano behind. The seriousness of her piano studies led her parents to consider not leaving the USSR, but they finally decided to emigrate, due to the ethnic and political discrimination that Jews faced.[4] Spektor is fluent in Russian and reads Hebrew, and has since paid tribute to her Russian heritage, quoting the poem February by the Russian poet Boris Pasternak in her song Après Moi, and stating “I’m very connected to the language and the culture.”
In New York, Spektor studied classical piano with Sonia Vargas, a professor at the Manhattan School of Music, until she was 17; Spektor’s father had met Vargas through her husband, violinist Samuel Marder. Although the family had been unable to bring their piano from Russia, Spektor found a piano on which to play in the basement of her synagogue, and also practiced on tabletops and other hard surfaces.
Spektor was originally interested only in classical music, but later became interested in hip hop, rock and punk as well.Although she had always made up songs around the house, Spektor first became interested in more formal songwriting during a visit to Israel with the Nesiya Institute in her teenage years when she attracted attention from the other children on the trip for the songs she made up while hiking and realized she had an aptitude for songwriting.
Following this trip, she was exposed to the work of Joni Mitchell, Ani DiFranco, and other singer-songwriters, which encouraged her belief that she could create her own songs.
She wrote her first a cappella songs around the age of 16 and her first songs for voice and piano when she was nearly 18.
Spektor completed the four-year studio composition program of the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College within three years, graduating with honors in 2001. Around this time, she also worked briefly at a butterfly farm in Luck, Wisconsin,and studied in Tottenham, ( a suburb ofLondon) for one semester.
She gradually achieved recognition through performances in the anti-folk scene in downtown New York City, often as a duo with drummer Anders Griffen, and most importantly at the East Village’s Sidewalk Cafe, but also at the Living Room, Tonic, Fez, the Knitting Factory, and CB‘s Gallery.[citation needed] She also performed at local colleges (such as Sarah Lawrence College) with other musicians, including the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. She sold self-published CDs at her performances during this period: 11:11 (2001) and Songs (2002). In 2004, she signed a contract with Warner Brothers‘ record label Sire Records to publish and distribute her third album Soviet Kitsch, originally self-released in 2003.
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