Regina Spektor

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One-String Blues

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: Regina Spektor Canonical path: /regina-spektor/one-string-blues Related lyric paths: 6

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One-String Blues

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Got me a pair of dreary eyes

Pale color blue upon pale color white

Sometimes they cry

Sometimes they dry

Pale color blue upon pale color white

Got me a pair of dreary eyes

And they tell no lies

I got me some lips but they taste no sweet

I got me some lips but they taste no sweet

They're as dry as the old concrete

Beaten up new york street

And they taste no sweet...

If only my baby would come back home to me

If only my baby would come back home to me

I would go to sleep with

Sugar on my tongue

I would go to sleep with

Sweetness in my lungs

I would go to sleep

Wrapped inside his skin

And i don't care what they say

But it ain't no sin...

So, me and poseidon we been hanging around the water hole and he says to me, he says

Regina, regina i got no authority no more

No one waits to hear the sound of my flip-flops by the door

And all my little fish have gone to war

So i says to him, i says

Poseidon dear, you're better off than me, i hear

Cause i been taking all the wrong busses everywhere

Wrong busses, they lead me to wrong stops

Wrong stops, they lead me to wrong people

Wrong people, they take me nowhere fast

So he says to me, he says

Going nowhere fast

Just cause he didn't want me speaking fast

And i didn't think that was real polite

And he whips out his cigarettes and asks me for a light

And i say no and he says, oh baby

And i say no and he says, oh baby

And i say no and he says, oh baby

And then he just doesn't speak

So we just sit there and stare

Finally he says, he says, oh hell

And i try not to wince at his fishy smell

Cause i didn't think that that was real polite

And he whips out his cigarettes and asks me for a light

And i say no and he says, oh baby

And i say no and he says, oh baby

And i say no and he says, oh baby

And then he just, he just doesn't speak

Got me a pair of dreary eyes

Pale color blue upon pale color white

Sometimes they cry

Sometimes they dry

Pale color blue like the dingy sky

Pale color blue, pale color blue

Pale color blue upon pale color white

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