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Regina Spektor – Begin to Hope Lyrics 15 years ago
"Like she somehow managed to steal my thoughts!"

Zaner, it's almost like you managed to steal mine when you wrote that. There are these moments in her songs that just feel like they came right out of my head. Especially:

I was here but now I've gone to take a walk
And I won't be back, 'cause its a lovely day

I actually took that walk. It was just far too lovely out to spend it in an office building. My sharpie was email, but close enough. I just walked around town all afternoon. And the fact that they owned me didn't deter me at all.

And none of us know how long we've got to stay

I took that walk, too. Right after an earthquake, from the same office building. I went to see my girlfriend, because both her work and her apartment were pretty torn up. We just walked around town, and oddly enough that was also a lovely day.

There was this feeling to both of those days, and it's in this song.

There are plenty more instances of Regina stealing my thoughts. Maybe I'll start a list of them. Her words are just so lucid. I can only hope she starts writing novels someday as well.

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