

Begin to hope CD

12 years ago today (June 13, 2006), Regina Spektor released her first major-label album Begin to Hope. The album peaked No. 20 on Billboard 200 and established Regina as an indie icon.

To celebrate the occasion, here are our favourite lyrics from each of the 19 tracks on the album's Bonus Track Version.

"Fidelity"

"I never loved nobody fully

Always one foot on the ground

And by protecting my heart truly

I got lost in the sounds"

"Better"

"You're getting sadder, getting sadder

Getting sadder, getting sadder

And I don't understand, and I don't understand"

"Samson"

"Oh, I cut his hair myself one night

A pair of dull scissors in the yellow light

And he told me that I'd done alright

And kissed me 'til the morning light, the morning light

And he kissed me 'til the morning light"

"On the Radio"

"On the radio

We heard November Rain

That solo's really long

But it's a pretty song

We listened to it twice

Cause the DJ was asleep"

"Field Below"

"Again the sun was never called

And darkness spreads over the snow﻿"

"Hotel Song"

"I have dreams of Orca whales and owls

But I wake up in fear"

"Après Moi"

"Après moi, le deluge

After me comes the flood"

"20 Years of Snow"

"And the words float out like holograms

And the words float out like holograms

And the words float out like holograms﻿"

"That Time"

"Hey, remember that month when I only ate boxes of

Tangerines, so cheap and juicy

Tangerines"

"Edit"

"White lines on your mind

Keep it steady

You were never ready for the lies"

"Lady"

"But on this stage

I've learned to fly

Learned to sing

And learned to cry

Little wet tears on my baby's shoulder"

"Summer In the City"

"Don't get me wrong, dear

In general I'm doing quite fine

It's just when it's summer in the city

And you are so long gone from the city

I start to miss you, baby, sometimes"

"Another Town"

"In another town

Don't let me forget

In another town

Mouth full of regrets

In another town

Please place final bets"

"Uh-Merica"

"Somewhere between the cobblestone floor and the slated wooden ceiling

Cuddling my semi-automatic, with a very fuzzy feeling﻿"

"Baobabs"

"And you have tamed me

Now you must take me﻿"

"Düsseldorf"

"In Prague I knew I'd been a witch

Burnt alive, a pyre of Soviet kitsch﻿

It made me miss my Moscow muttdom

It made me miss my New York nothing"

"Musicbox"

"I run the water very very very hot

And then I fill the sink to the top with bubbles of soap

And then I set all the bottle caps I own afloat

And it's the greatest voyage in the history of plastic"

"Hero"

"I'm the hero of the story, don't need to be saved"

"Bartender"

"Love will be the death of me

Love is so fickle

It starts with a flood

And it ends with a tr-tr-trickle"

Honorable mentions:

"Hey, remember that time when you OD'd

Hey, remember that other time when you OD'd for the second time

Well, in the waiting room, while waiting for news of you, I hallucinated I could read your mind

And I was on a lot of shit, too, but what I saw, man...

I tell you it was freaky

Freaky"

- That Time

"But I got to get me out of here

This place is full of dirty old men

And the navigators with their mappy maps

And moldy heads and pissing on sugar cubes"

- 20 Years of Snow

"You are my sweetest downfall"

- Samson

“This is how it works: you're young until you're not; you love until you don't; you try until you can't; you laugh until you cry; you cry until you laugh, and everyone must breathe until their dying breath”

– On the Radio

And finally...

"UH-MERICA"

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