Regina Spektor

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!

No one's laughing at God

We're all laughing with God.

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

And we're trying to be faithful, but we're

Cheating, cheating, cheating.

I must go on standing

You can't break that which isn't yours

I must go on standing

I'm not my own, It's not my choice

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...

Rise from your cold hospital bed

You're not dying

Everyone knows you're going to live

So you might as well start trying

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.

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