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Sellers Of Flowers

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Regina Spektor (born Regina Ilyinichna Spektor on 18 February 1980 in Moscow) is a Russian-born American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Her music is associated with the anti-folk scene centered on New York City's East Village.

Spektor studied classical piano from the age of six, practising on a Petrof piano given to her mother by her grandfather. She was also exposed to the music of rock and roll bands such as The Beatles, Queen, and The Moody Blues by her father

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[Verse 1]
Bm
The sellers of flowers
G
Buy up old roses
F
They pull off dead petals
Am
Like old heads of lettuce
Em
And sell ’em as new ones
G
For cheaper and fairer
D
But they die by the morning
F
So who is the winner?

[Chorus]
Bb
Not the roses
Dm
Not the buyers
A
Not the sellers

Maybe winter

[Verse 2]
Bm
Cause winter is coming
G
Soon after summer
F
It runs faster, faster
Am
Chasing off Autumn
Em G
We go from a warm sun to only a white sun
D F
We go from a large sun to only a small one

[Verse 3]
Bm G
When I was a small girl I walked through the market
F Am
Holding my dad’s hand, mitten in gloved hand
Em G
At night there were roses lit up in glass boxes
D F
The heat-lamps would keep them from freezing in winter

[Verse 4]
Bb Dm
We never bought them but somebody must have
A A7
Maybe they made it or maybe they froze up
Bb
Before any person had put them in water
A
And hoped that they’d still be alive by the morning

[Chorus]
Bb
Who’s the winner?
Dm
Not the roses
A
Not the buyers

Not the sellers
Bb
Not the tellers

Of these stories
A
Not the fathers

Not their children

Bb
Not those waking
A#(b5)
On a dark night
A
Through a memory

They’re forgetting
Eb
Who’s the winner? Who’s the winner?
A
Maybe winter, maybe winter

[Verse 5]
Bm D F#m
Somebody steps on a light through a tunnel
Bm D F#m
They’re holding a piece of their mind in the rubble
Faug F#m A D A D
Hold on I won’t let go
Bm A G
I want to know

[Instrumentation]

[Verse 6]
Bm
But no one lives long enough
G
To see the outcome
F
To know any answers
Am
To know what the point is
Em
To know if the winter
G
Ever came closer
D
Than on that night
F
When I walked with my father

[Verse 7]
Bb
A small piece of ice
Dm
Lodged in my mind
A
Lodged in my thoughts, lodged in my eyes
Gm
Cold all around, cold all around
A
Warm from inside, warm from inside

[Chorus]
Bb
Who’s the winner?
Dm
Not the roses
A
Not the buyers

Not the sellers
Bb
Not the tellers

Of these stories
A
Not the fathers

Not their children

Bb
Who’s the winner?
Dm
Not the roses
A
Not the buyers

Not the sellers
Bb
Not the tellers

Of these stories
A
Not the fathers

Not their children

[Outro]
Bb
Not those waking
A#(b5)
On a dark night
A
Through a memory

They’re forgetting
Eb
Who’s the winner? Who’s the winner?
A
Maybe winter, maybe winter
Eb
Who’s the winner? Who’s the winner?
A
Maybe winter, maybe winter
Eb A Gm Edim Dm
Who’s the winner? Who’s the winner?