Dusseldorf -- Regina Spektor

Dusseldorf by Regina Spektor

In Dusseldorf I met a clown
His nose
It was red
In Gelterkinden I forgot to frown
Then remembered
It again
In Paris I saw a big fish
Swimmin' slow
In the Seine
It made me hopeful that someday
Our water will be breathable again
Ah-oh-oh
Oh, oh
Ah-oh-oh
Oh, oh, oh
Ah-ah-oh-oh
Oh, oh, oh
Ah-ah-oh
Oh, oh, oh

In Franfurt I heard eins zwei drei
Counting cookies, and no one was shot
In Berlin, stopped by the polizei
For drunk driving, and everyone smiled
In Prague I knew I'd been a witch
Burnt alive, a pyre of Soviet kitsch
It made me miss my Moscow mother
It made me miss my New York nothing
Ah-oh-oh
Oh, oh, oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh, oh
Ah-ah-oh
Oh, oh, oh
Ah-ah-oh
Oh, oh, oh

In Montpelier I stayed in a chateau
A boy climbed into my bed and he knew no boundaries, and in
Amsterdam I got quite crazy
Might have been all the tulips and canals
Or it might have been all that hash, and in
Barcelona, buenos dias
Chocolate, le Picasso
And in Brussels
Clean-cut hostel
And in London
Me and the French existentialists
Ah-oh-oh
Oh, oh, oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh, oh
Ah-ah-oh-oh
Oh, oh, oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh, oh

In Corsica I floated away
All the way
To Marseilles
I should have held an afterparty
For all the thoughts
I didn't say
In Dusseldorf I met a dwarf
With bad breath
And a really good tan
In Gelterkinden I remembered how to laugh
And I never, ever forgot it again
Ah-oh-oh
Oh, oh, oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh, oh
Ah-ah-oh-oh
Oh, oh, oh
Ah-oh-oh
Oh, oh, oh
Ah-ah-oh-oh
Oh, oh, ohh
Ah-oh-oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• dusseldorf
• regina
• spektor
• music

[declanjonesrox]

this is my second favourite regina spektor song!! thanks so much for posting it, where was that live?? ^^

[DawnlessSkys]

2003-08-19 Sin-e, New York.

If you've heard of the song Happy Hooker, this song was performed before it =D

[fadeline]

aw ty so much for posting this. she is soo cute in this! and i love the audience. What show is this from??!!

Regina is my love!!

[DawnlessSkys]

2003-08-19Sin-e, New York.

[depolarized]

i agree, the way she dictates what she is speaking is so cute.

her speaking voice is so i don't even know but it makes my heart flutter, and gives me butterflies.

her singing voice is very old world, it's rich and beautiful.

there's no one better then regina.

[PatrickRob82]

She is quite possibly the cutest creature ever created! I LOVE HER!!!!!

[jackieee161]

wow she is amazing live!

[herpderp4202]

@akoyaahime I love that line as well but its not the sand its the Seine which is a river in France!

[Lilyfloss]

this is great

[ThomasReedMusic]

@smileforthecamera21 You're absolutely right!

[smileforthecamera21]

@ThomasReedMusic I don't think any of us will ever hear all of the songs ever created by Regina.

[204776439]

I don't know if this is one of her more popular songs or not but this was the one that made me realize she was a musical genius.

[alicepotter777]

i bet the two people who disliked this are married to each other and they were never in love:):):)

[akoyaahime]

@33adamwg Really? I though it was sand because that would be more appropriate since I didn't know about the problems of the Seine. I guess your right ^__^ Thanks for telling me~ It's a brilliant line indeed!

[33adamwg]

@akoyaahime It is a brilliant line, but I think she is saying "Seine" not "sand." It's a river in France pronounced "sen." The river used to be a mess with sewage overflow and a really high acidity level, but it has undergone huge clean up efforts, and in 2009 Atlantic Salmon returned to the river (according to Wikipedia.)

[schizophrenicPrime]

seeing regina spektor live is on my bucket list... :3