Regina Spektor was born in Moscow, Russia, to a musical family. Her father, a photographer, was also an amateur violinist, and her mother was a music professor in a Russian conservatory; she now teaches at a public elementary school in Mount Vernon, New York. Spektor studied classical piano from the age of six, practicing on a Petrof piano 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, during the period of Perestroika when Jewish citizens were permitted to emigrate.
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Folding Chair Lyrics
Regina Spektor
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 (???) clothes all cool and you'll grafiti up this tide
I've got a perfect body, but sometimes I forget,
I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat, yes they do. They do.
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh-ooh.
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh.
Now I've been sitting on this abandoned beach for years,
Waiting for the salty water to cover up my ears.
Every time the tide (???) to take me home,
I get scared I'm sitting here alone,
Dreaming of the dolphin song.
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh-ooh.
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh.
Maybe one day you'll understand,
That I want nothing from you but to sweetly hold your hand.
'Til that day just please don't be so down,
Don't make frowns, you silly clown.
Just 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 waves are just a frothier version of the skies.
There's a shadow, you can't see my eyes.
There's a shadow, you can't see my eyes.