Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Regina Spektor
Canonical path: /regina-spektor/the-flowers
Related lyric paths: 6
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The Flowers
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The Flowers
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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
The papers around me are piling and twisting
Regina, the paperback mummy
What then?
I'm taking the knife to the books that I own
And chopping and chopping
And boiling soup from stones
Things I have loved
I'm allowed to keep
I'll never know if I go to sleep
Things I have loved
I'm allowed to keep
I'll never know if I go to sleep
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Regina Spektor performs "The Flowers", and this lyric page sits inside the Regina Spektor catalog on LyroVerse.
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