All The Rowboats Lyrics - What We Saw From The Cheap Seats - Regina Spektor

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 touch 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 

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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 

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 

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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 

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...