The Flowers

by Regina Spektor

From the album: Soviet Kitsch

Track 4 of 11 on Soviet Kitsch (2004).

Duration: 03:54

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Lyrics for 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 Eaaa, ahh A-da-dum, a-da-dum Bum, ba-da-dum Waau, ba-daam 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 I'm chopping and chopping and boiling soup from 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 Aah, ooh do doo Aah, oh de dah, oh Aah, de dah da da Ba bum, ba bum

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