Regina Spektor

Songwriter: John Lennon

Producer: Joe Mendelson Regina Spektor

[Verse 1]
All my little plans and schemes
Lost like some forgotten dream
Seems like all I really was doing
Was waiting for you
Just like little girls and boys
Playing with their little toys
Seems like all they really were doing
Was waiting for love

[Chorus 1]
Don't need to be alone
No need to be alone

[Chorus 2]
It's real love, yes it's real love
Oh, It's real love, yes it's real love

[Verse 2]
From this moment on I know
Exactly where my life will go
Seems that all I really was doing
Was waiting for love
Don't need to be afraid
No need to be afraid

[Chorus 2]
It's real love, yes it's real love
Oh, It's real love, yes it's real love

[Verse 3]
Thought I'd been in love before
But in my heart I wanted more
Seems like all I really was doing
Was waiting for you

[Chorus 1]

[Chorus 2]
It's real love, yes it's real love
Oh, It's real love, yes it's real love[x2]

Regina Spektor is a Russian-born, Bronx-raised singer-songwriter who rose to prominence in New York’s anti-folk scene in the early 2000s. After 3 self-released albums, she signed with Sire Records in 2004 and released her first record produced with the resources of a major label. The result, 2006’s Begin to Hope, achieved Gold status with popular singles such as “Fidelity” and “Better.” Her following two albums, Far and What We Saw from the Cheap Seats, each debuted at number 3 on the Billboard charts. She is currently best known for creating the opening theme for Neflix’s Orange Is The New Black, “You’ve Got Time.” The song was nominated for a Grammy in 2014.

As a woman who grew up with Russian and Hebrew but claims to have learned how to express herself in English, Spektor has an instinctive grasp of the versatility of language and music. Spektor is best known for writing story-songs that connect back to her Russian-Jewish roots and her classical piano training, but like other anti-folk singers, Regina Spektor displays a freeness in her musicality that defies genre pretensions and formulas. This shines through in her lyrical obsession with the phonetics of her words, emphasizing clicks, glottal stops, and alliterations in a way that turns her voice into both a melodic and a percussive instrument.

For the majority of her childhood, Spektor studied classical piano and had no aspirations to compose music of her own. However, she gradually became aware that her tendency to improvise vocalizations and stories in her free time could be combined with her skills on the piano to create music that expressed her personality and gave an outlet to her rich imagination. The playful affection with which Spektor improvised melodies as a teenager has continued to influence her adult craft and has made her a beloved musician to fans all over the world.

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