All the Rowboats

Album: What We Saw from the Cheap Seats (2012)
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  • 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 catch a sculpture marble,
    Cold, 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, 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 stay 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
    All the rowboats in the oil paintings
    They keep trying to row away, row away Writer/s: REGINA SPEKTOR
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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