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REGINA SPEKTOR lyrics : "All The Rowboats"

All 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


Hear them whispering french and german
Dutch, italian, and latin
When no one's looking I fetch a sculpture

Marble, gold, and soft as satin
But the most special are the most lonely
God, I pity the violins

In glass coffins they keep coughing
They've forgotten, forgotten how to sing


First there's lights out, then there's lock up
Masterpieces serving maximum sentences
It's their own fault for being timeless

There's a price you pay and a consequence
All the galleries, the museums
Here's your ticket, welcome to the tombs

They're just public mausoleums
The living dead fill every room
But the most special are the most lonely

God, I pity the violins
In glass coffins they keep coughing
They've forgotten, forgotten how to sing


They will hang there 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


First there's lights out, then there's lock up
Masterpieces serving maximum sentences
It's their own fault for being timeless

There's a price you pay and a consequence
All the galleries, the museums
They will stay there forever and a day

All the rowboats in the oil paintings
They keep trying to row away, row away...

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