Regina Spektor - The Soup Lyrics

he sat on her knee and whispered to her about all the meanies....

NotecardPoetry77 he’s getting revenge

couldn't agree more, my friend

he just ran and then he was hit and then do do do do do do do

i never thought i'd have to go through this:(

Thank you regina! this is the last song in your 43 song playlist that I just listened to to get through my 8 hour last minute cram for biology.

Pedro Cruz Ooh, I would love to see that playlist!

I remember listening to this song in fifth grade on the way to space camp :D

@meikusje oh yeah! the book is The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen. my English teacher let me borrow it:) great book. teared up more than once...

@jemmismeers I love currysoup with spinach and cooked eggs. Best. Soup.Ever.

@alicepotter777 That sounds really interesting, if you find out the title or something, please let me know!

@xxxxxxxxKatexxxxxxxx i dont remember the auther but its about this girl who doesnt understand the importance of the history of judaism. so she gets sent to like 1940 and she relives everything her great grandparents lived, and she knows everything that is going to happen. the body she ends up in dies in the end, but right before she goes into the gas chamber she comes back to the present.

@alicepotter777 is it by Jane Yolen? I read a book by her called 'Briar Rose' (which is also about the Holocaust) and some of the scenes in it kind of remind me of this song. lol :P

I love how some of her hits have a million trillion billion views, but this is relatively unheard.

this song ties in with a book i finished reading a couple of hours ago called " the devils arithmetic" there are no words to describe this book. its about the Holocaust.
in the end they try to escape the camps. its the scariest book ive ever read. reality surpasses fiction): respekt:):):)

hey smartguy, thanks for the song,but why this pic? its not off this album.

@jemmismeers Tomato is nice, but I think carrot and apple soup (which tastes a lot better than it sounds) is the best. But then again, there's always the classic standby of matzo ball soup...

I love soup and songs pertaining to soup.

@xraindropgirlx she is awesome

she plays snakes and ladders with her voice at 0:26 - 0:35 <3

4 people don't like soup!

She could sing the ingredients on a bag of crisps and make it sound beautiful =)

I always think of that Edward Hopper painting, Nighthawks, when I hear this song. I've always wondered if the painting was Regina's inspiration for this. Like, she saw it and then her creative mind just invented this awesome story about what might be happening in the painting; a story where all of the members are in cahoots planning some sort of heist that night... a heist that fails miserably, as we hear.

This is my 3 year old daughter's favorite Regina song.

The lyrics are a bit off.
"The pictures had clear resolution in their mind,"
"Who'd wear the mask and who'd ring the cops."
Everything else was good, sorry, I'm sure really OCD when it comes to lyrics.

What's your source for the lyrics? To my knowledge there isn't an official source, to me it sounds like "bribe that cops", but just pronounced with a typical Regina-like twist.

The soup the soup the soup the soup.. idk why but that made me laugh

this song is so odd. i laughed at it for 3 hours.

Wasn't she only 9 or 10 years old when she emigrated to New York?

This sounds a bit like Love Affair but still love it (:

carrot and corriander. (y)

i really prefer tomato soup, with a little basil. i think it's the best. let's discuss.

the background kind of sounds a bit like love affair, doesn't it?

read the title thats on the picture......

strange foto.
has this outfit a message?

i think the sunchronizing ribcages are like they were all getting really nervous or excited before they robbed the bank thing..just wanted to put that out there :)

it probably means they got ready like covering their rib cages in any case we love her and many of her lyrics r symbolic. or just random :3

Who knows. You never know Buster could've just been hit , not killed. Since she doesn't give a description on how he got hit or "died". So its really unclear. But in her words, there's a great possibility that Buster died. I love how she makes her songs on daily life and other things we wouldn't imagine about a singer singing.

You're going to love them all. I have 2 albums and there are no bad songs.

the main theme of this song sounds exactly like "love affair." rhythmically, at least. but the change in harmony and the completely different attitude of this song make that irrelevent. :]

i agree i love her :)

by the way the soup is referring to the saying to be in the soup=to be in a predicament,in trouble of some sort...

[im a nerd]:D

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Regina Spektor is so awesome!!! ^^ ^^ ^^ This is one of my favorite songs of hers. ^^ Thank you for posting it! =3 =3 =3