Regina Spektor

No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one's laughing at God
when they're starving or freezing or so very poor...

It started out as a feeling
Which then grew into a hope
Which then turned into a quiet thought
Which then turned into a quiet word
And then that word grew louder and louder
'Til it was a battle cry

I'll come back
When you call me
No need to say goodbye

No one's laughing at God
We're all laughing with God.

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

Today we`re younger
Than we ever gonna be.

And we're trying to be faithful, but we're
Cheating, cheating, cheating.

Be afraid of the lame,
They'll inherit your legs.
Be afraid of the old,
They'll inherit your souls.
Be afraid of the cold,
They'll inherit your blood.
Apres moi, le deluge
After me the flood...

You taste like Birthday
You look like New Years
You’re like a big parade through town
You leave such a mess but you’re so fun!

The boys and girls watch each other eat
When they really just wanna watch each other sleep.

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 to pay and a consequence.
All the galleries, the museums:
"Here's your ticket, welcome to the tombs"
There 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

The piano is not firewood yet
But the cold does get cold
So it soon might be that
I'll take it apart, call up my friends
And we'll warm up our hands by the fire

Don't look so shocked
Don't judge so harsh
You don't know
You are only spying
Everyone knows it's going to hurt
But at least we'll get hurt trying.

Rise from your cold hospital bed
You're not dying
Everyone knows you're going to live
So you might as well start trying