Regina Spektor – Buildings (Guitar)

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He was a husband who drove his wife home drunk from the parties 

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He was a husband who drove his wife home 

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And in the car he would gently lean her head on the side door window 

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And in the bathroom he would hold her hair back and hope, saying: 

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Oh, they build buildings, oh, they build buildings, 

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Oh, they build buildings, oh, they build buildings,

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Oh, they build buildings, oh, they build buildings,

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Oh, they build buildings so tall these days 

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And in the morning she'd wake up and crouch recollections all day 

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But she would always always wake up the next morning 

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And he'd take one look at her and say, oh, oh, it's okay

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And her conscience would issue yet another last warning, saying; 

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Oh, they build buildings, oh, they build buildings, 

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Oh, they build buildings, oh, they build buildings,

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Oh, they build buildings, oh, they build buildings,

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Oh, they build buildings so tall these days 

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And she would ask for time and she'd ask for time

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And she'd ask for time and she'd ask for time  

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And she would beg for time and she'd beg for time and call it a gift

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And he would give her time and he'd give her time 

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And he'd give her time and he'd give her time

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But time is not given and time is not taken 

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It just sifts through its sieve

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But time is not given and time is not taken 

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It just sifts through its sieve

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Sift through its sieve, just sift through its sieve

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Oh, darling......sift through its sieve....just sift through its sieve

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And it would be coffee and coffee and coffee 

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And coffee and coffee and coffee some more 

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He'd go to work and she'd take a sick day and rot at the core 

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And by the time he came back, she'd scrub the bathrooms 

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And make them smell like pine 

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It would be almost as if nothing had happened 

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And he'd give her time, oh, oh, and he'd give her time, saying:

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Oh, they build buildings, oh, they build buildings, 

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Oh, they build buildings, oh, don't they build buildings,

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Oh, they build buildings, oh, they build buildings,

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Oh, they build buildings so tall these days 

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And she would ask for time and she'd ask for time 

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And she'd ask for time and she'd beg for time

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And she would beg for time and she'd beg for time and call it a gift 

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And he would give her time and he'd give her time

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And he'd give her time and he'd give her time

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But time is not given and time is not taken 

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It just sifts through its sieve

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But time is not given and time is not taken 

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It just sifts through its sieve

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Oh, sift through its sieve, sift through its sieve

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Oh, ooh..........sift through its sieve....sift through its sieve

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He was a husband who drove, time, home, time, car, hope

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Core, cores a day, pour coffee, core warning, last warning

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Was a husband, time, pine, scrub, scrub, bathroom, clean, 

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Hair, bath, car, window, hope, time, gift

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Don't they build buildings tall these days...