1. Ode To Divorce

The food that I’m eating is suddenly tasteless
I know I’m alone now
I know what it tastes like
So break me to small parts
Let go in small doses
But spare some for spare parts
There might be some good ones!
Like you might make a dollar
I’m inside your mouth now
Behind your tonsils
Peaking over your molars
You’re talking to her now
You’ve eaten something minty and you’re making that face that I like and you’re going in in for the kill kill
For the killer kiss kiss for the kiss kiss
I need your money, it will help me
I need your care and I need your love
So won’t you help a brother out
Won’t you help a brother out?
Won’t help a brother out, out, out, out, out
Just break me to small parts
Let go in small does
But spare some for spare parts
You might make a dollar
You might make a $
So won’t you help a brother out
Won’t you help a brother out?
Won’t you help a brother out, out, out, out, out
Just break me to small parts
Let go in small doses
But spare some for spare parts
There might be some good ones
You might make a $

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2. Poor Little Rich Boy

Poor little rich boy
All the couples have gone
You wish that they hadn’t
You don’t want to be alone
But they want to kiss
And they got homes of their own
Poor little rich boy
All the couples have gone have gone have gone
And you don’t love your girlfriend
You don’t love your girlfriend
And you think that you should but she thinks that she’s fat but she isn’t but you don’t love her anyway
And you don’t love your mother
And you know that you should
And you wish that you would but you don’t anyway
Poor little rich boy
Oh the world is ok
The water runs off your skin
And down into the drain
You’re reading Fitzgerald
You’re reading Hemingway
They’re both super smart
And drinking in the cafes
But you don’t love your girlfriend
You don’t love your girlfriend
And you think that you should but she thinks that she’s fat but she isn’t but you don’t love her anyway
And you don’t love your mother
And you know that you should
And you wish that you would
But you don’t anyway
You’re so young you’re so god damn young
You’re so young you’re so god damn young
And you don’t love your girlfriend

3. Carbon Monoxide

Carbon monoxide
Soon I’ll go to sleep
If I don’t got my socks on right
They slide right off of my feet
As I walka walka walka walk...carbon monoxide
As I take you home
First time I get my socks on right
But I don’t have a gas mask on
As I walka walka walka walk you home
Yeah
I’m so cool, I’m so cool, I’m so cool
Come on daddy
Come on daddy...carbon monoxide
Soon we’ll go to sleep
No one will notice we’re gone
Cause we don’t have a job to keep
They’ll just say that we’re being lazy
Sex crazed
Sex crazed
Hazy
They’ll just say we’re living out whole life in bed
And we’ll be in bed but we’ll be oh so very much
Deada, deada, deada, dead
Yeah
But we’re so cool, we’re so cool, we’re so cool
Deada, deada, deada, dead
But we’re still cool, we’re still cool, we’re still cool
Come on daddy
Come on daddy
Come on daddy
Carbon monoxide
Carbon monoxide

4. The Flowers

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 paper back mummy
What then
I’m taking the knife to the books that I own and chipping and chopping and boiling soup from a stone

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

5. Us

The made a statue of us
And put it on a mountain top
Now tourists come and stare at us
Blow bubbles with their gum
Take photographs have fun
Have fun
They’ll name a city after us
And later say it’s all our fault
Then they’ll give us a talking to
Then they’ll give us a talking to
Cause they’ve got years of experience
We’re living in a den of thieves
Rummaging for answers in the pages
We’re living in a den of thieves
And it’s contagious
And it’s contagious
We wear our scarves just like a noose
But not cause we want eternal sleep
And though our parts are slightly used
New ones are slave labor you can keep
We’re living in a den of thieves
Rummaging for answers in the pages
We’re living in a den of thieves
And it’s contagious
And it’s contagious
It’s contagious
It’s contagious
They made a statue of us
They made a statue of us
The tourists come and stare at us
The sculptor’s mama sends regards
They made a statue of us
They made a statue of us
Our noses have begun to rust
We’re living in a den of thieves rummaging for answers in the pages
We’re living in a den of thieves
And it’s contagious
And it’s contagious
It’s contagious, it’s contagious
It’s contagious
It’s contagious
It’s contagious
It’s contagious

6. Sailor Song

She will kiss you ’til your lips bleed
But she will not take her dress off
Americana
Tropicana
All the sailor boys have demons
They sing oh Kentucky why did you forsake me
If I was meant to sail the sea why did you make me
It should have been another state
Oh stay...cause Mary Anne’s a bitch
Mary Anne’s a bitch
Does it matter that out anchor
Couldn’t even reach the bottom of a bath tub
And the sails reflect the moon it’s such a strange job
Playing blackjack on the deck
Still...atop this giant puddle
Dressed in white we quietly huddle with our missiles
And we miss the girls back home
Oh home sweet home...cause Mary Anne’s a bitch
Mary Anne’s a bitch
She will kiss you ’til your lips bleed
But she will not take her dress off
Americana
Tropicana

7. ***

Bear: "regina...regina..."
Reg: "What?"
Bear: "When is that song gonna start?"
Reg: "Which song?"
Bear: "the song that goes like "Da na na na na na na na Danananana."
Reg: "Oh...it’s gonna start in a minute. You just gotta wait."
Bear: "OK. ... ... ... "Regina! Start it already!!!"
Reg: "It’s gonna start in a second, you just gotta wait!" ... "It’s gonna start...NOW!!!"

8. Your Honor

I kissed your lips and I tasted blood
I asked you what happened and you said there’d been a fight
You said I’ve been fighting for your honor but you wouldn’t understand
I said hold on our honor I’ll get ice for your hand
Oh you been fighting for my honor and I don’t understand
But hold on your honor I’ll get ice for your hand...You said come on baby let’s jus make love it’s the only thing to make me better
You said come on let’s just get you out of that sweater
I said I don’t kiss losers and I don’t kiss winners
And I don’t fight for honor cause we all are born sinners
Gargle with peroxide a steak for your eye
But I’m a vegetarian so it’s a frozen pizza pie
You tell me that you care and you never do lie
And you fight for my honor but I just don’t know why
Mare had a little lamb with fleece as white as snow
You’ve got me and I’m just a common ’ho
But I know what I am and I know what I ain’t
So don’t get cut cause I still wont be no saint
Gargle with peroxide a steak for your eye
But I’m a pizzaterian so it’s a frozen pizza pie
You tell me that you love me and you never do lie
And you fight for my honor but I just don’t know why
You fight for my honor and I don’t understand
But hold on your honor I’ll get ice for your hand...

9. Ghost Of Corporate Future

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 save his suit
Tryin to dryin to tryin 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 "ewwww"
Everyone who sees him says "ewwww"
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
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
Well maybe you should just drink a lot less coffee
And never ever watch the 10 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
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 streets 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 pockets
Put dirtballs in your pockets
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

10. Chemo Limo

I had a dream
Crispy crispy Benjamin Franklin came over and babysat all four of my kids
Then in my dream I told the doctor off he said "if you don’t want to do it
Then you don’t have to do it"
He said "the truth is you’ll be ok anyway"
Then in my dream
Crispy crispy Benjamin Franklin and the doctor went and had a talk with my boss
Something about insurance policies
They kept the door closed at all times
I couldn’t hear or see
When they came out they said "you’ll be ok anyway"
And I smile cause I’d known it all the while
No thank you no thank you no thank you no thank you
I ain’t about to pay for this shit
I can afford chemo like I can afford a limo and on any given day I’d rather ride a limousine
No thank you no thank you no thank you no thank you
I ain’t about to die like this
I can afford chemo like I can afford a limo
And besides this shit is making me tired it’s making me tired it’s making me tired
You know I planned to retire someday
But mama’s gonna go out in style
Go out in style
This shit is making me tired
It’s making me tired, it’s making me tired
Mama gonna go out in style
When I woke up the kids were being quiet
I knew it was a dream right away
I called the limousine company
Then I got dressed
I dressed the kids as well
The limousine pulled in and we piled in
The doctor he asked which way we were headed
I said "sir let’s just go west" and he listened obediently
Sophie only wanted to listen to radio BBC
Michael sat on my knees and whispered to me all about the meanies
Jacqueline was being such a big girl with her cup of tea looking out of the window
And Barbara, she looks just like my mom
Oh my Barbara she looks so much like my mom
No thank you no thank you no thank you no thank you
I ain’t about to pay for this shit
I can afford chemo like I can afford a limo
And any given day I’d rather ride a limousine
No thank you no thank you no thank you no thank you
I ain’t about to die like this
I can afford chemo like I can afford a limo
And besides this shit is making me tired
It’s making me tired it’s making me tired
You know I plan to retire someday
But mama gonna go out in style
Go out in style
This shit is making me tired
It’s making me tired it’s making me tired
Mama gonna go out in style
Go out in style
Style
I had a dream
Crispy crispy Benjamin Franklin came over and babysat all four of my kids
I had a dream
Crispy crispy Benjamin Franklin came over and babysat all four of my kids
Sophie only wanted to listen to radio BBC
Michael sat on my knees and whispered to me all about the meanies
Jacqueline was being such a big girl with her cup of tea looking out of the window
And Barbara, she looks just like my mom oh my God, Barbara she looks so much like my mom
Oh my Barbara she looks so much just like my mom...

11. Somedays

Somedays aren’t yours at all
They come and go as if they’re someone elses days
They come and leave you behind someone elses face
And it’s harsher than yours
And colder than yours
They come in all quiet sweep up and then they leave
And you don’t hear a single floor board creak
They’re so much stronger than the friends you try to keep by your side
Downtown, downtown
I’m not here, not anymore
I’ve gone away
Don’t call me don’t write
*I’m in love with your daughter
I want to have her baby I’m in love with your daughter
So can I please
Downtown, downtown
I’m not here
Not anymore
I’ve gone away don’t call me don’t write
I’ve gone away don’t call me don’t write
Somedays aren’t yours at all
They come and go as if they’re someone elses days
They come and leave you behind someone elses face
And it’s harsher than yours


*The line "I’m in love with your daughter" lyric and melody used with permission from the song "Your Daughter" by Eric Biondo. C2002 Eric Biondo

Liner Notes:

Thank You: (in no order at all...) *heart*

TMF studios, Graden Studios, Gordon Raphael & Alan Bezozi, Toshi Yoshioka & Josh Stoddard & Will Kelly, Mark Richards, Rosemary Carroll, James Wordem, Janinie Small, Marsha Vlasic, Michael Goldstone, Seymour Stein, Tom Whalley, Jeff Ayeroff, Lydia Sarno, Mitra Darab, Lyor Cohen, Brie Greenberg, everyone at Sire & Warner Bros., Ron Shapiro, Joe Hegleman, Elliott Baer, Jim Merlis, Steven Tachtenbroit, Phil Sarna & all at PSBM, Mike & Lindsey, Crackerfarm, Joe Mendelson, John Sopkia, Jonathan Benedict, Jon Hull, Adria Petty, Bear Spektor, All the musicians on this record, The Strokes & Ryan Gentles & crew, The Kings Of Leon & crew, Ed Harcourt, Davie Poe, Sidewalk Café & The Livingroom & Tonic & The Bowery Ballroom, Mama & Papa & Barry & Roza & Marsha & everyone in my huge and beautiful family, all my wonderful friends in NYC, and *heart* YOU!

This record is dedicated to my grandma, Babooshka Basya Lyubovitskaya


1 Ode To Divorce
regina – piano & voice. Jane Scarpantoni – cello. Alan Bezozi – heart
2 Poor Little Rich Boy
regina – piano, voice and stick
3 Carbon Monoxide
regina – piano, voice. Oren Bloedow – guitar. Graham Maby – bass. Alan Bezozi – drums
4 The Flowers
regina – piano, voice
5 Us
regina – piano, voice. The 4X4 String Quartet – strings
6 Sailor Song
regina – piano, voice, percussion. Graham Maby – bass. Gordon Raphael – percussion. Alan Bezozi – percussion
7 ***
regina and Bear Spektor -– whispers
8 Your Honor featuring Kill Kenada
regina – piano, voice
9 Ghost Of Corporate Future
regina – piano, voice
10 Chemo Limo
regina – piano, voice
11 Somedays
regina – piano, voice. The 4X4 String Quartet – strings

All songs written and C2004 Regina Spektor
Produced by Gordon Raphael, Alan Bezozi and regina spektor
All String Arrangements by regina spektor

Recorded in NYC and London
NYC – TMF Studios, engineered by Toshi Yoshioka
Assisted by Josh Stoddard and Will Kelly
London – The Garden Studios, engineered by Matt Hyde

Mastered by Fred Kevorkian at Absolute Audio, NYC

Piano Tuner – Sam Berd

Kill Kenada appear courtesy of Subverse Records

Cover Art and Photos by the Crackerfarm (www.crackerfarm.com)
Design by regina spektor and The Crackerfarm, with assistance from Marlow Palleja (www.marlowpallejadesign.com)

The Survival Guide To Soviet Kitsch EPK
Created by Adria Petty and regina spektor

"Us" Video
Directed by Adria Petty
Director of Animation: Peter Sluszka
Director of Photography: Ivan Abel
Edited by Holle Singer at Consulate Editorial
Produced by Lora Nelson/Michael Arias Garza at The Film Company


DVD Authoring: Jim Atkins for Media Services

C2005 Sire Records Group Inc. Made in U.S.A.