Regina Spektor - All The Rowboats - What We Saw from the Cheap Seats [HD]

All The Rowboats is the seventh song from Regina Spektor's new album, "What We Saw from the Cheap Seats" - May 29, 2012.
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1. Small Town Moon: • Regina Spektor - Small...
2. Oh Marcello: • Regina Spektor - Oh Ma...
3. Don't Leave Me (Ne Me Quitte Pas): • Regina Spektor - Don't...
4. Firewood: • Regina Spektor - Firew...
5. Patron Siant: • Regina Spektor - Patro...
6. How: • Regina Spektor - How -...
7. Open: • Regina Spektor - Open ...
8. All The Rowboats: • Regina Spektor - All T...
9. Ballad Of A Politician: • Regina Spektor - Balla...
10. The Party: • Regina Spektor - The P...
11. Jesicca: • Regina Spektor - Jessi...
12. Call Them Brothers: • Regina Spektor - Call ...
13. The Prayer of François Villon (Molitva): • Regina Spektor - The P...
14. Old Jacket (Stariy Pidjak): • Regina Spektor - Old J...
Full Album Playlist: • Regina Spektor - What ...
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[@constanceevergreen7267]

my actual favourite song by Regina Spektor. Most people walk through a museum thinking "ooh pretty." this woman walks through a museum and writes a masterpiece. We do stan

[@felicitatorsananda6332]

one mo time baby!! ...now press repeat

[@morganenix9725]

"here's your ticket---welcome to the tombs" gets me in my feels for some reason. I love this song so much.

[@Dunoid]

It's true imagination to think of a song like this.

[@kaitlynnduenow4982]

It truly is and what a beautiful song too.

[@Angelectric_609]

Dunoid M U S E U M S

[@unerosejolie]

This song is a masterpiece, how can someone hate this?

[@Tehpillowstar]

All the rowboats in the paintings They keep trying to row away And the captains' worried faces Stay contorted and staring at the waves They'll keep hanging in their gold frames For forever, forever and a day All the rowboats in the oil paintings They keep trying to row away, row away Hear them whispering French and German Dutch, Italian, and Latin When no one's looking I catch a sculpture marble, Cold, and soft as satin But the most special are the most lonely God, I pity the violins In glass coffins they keep coughing They've forgotten, forgotten how to sing, how to sing First there's lights out, then there's lock up Masterpieces serving maximum sentences It's their own fault for being timeless There's a price you pay and a consequence All the galleries, the museums Here's your ticket, welcome to the tombs They're just public mausoleums The living dead fill every room But the most special are the most lonely God, I pity the violins In glass coffins they keep coughing They've forgotten, forgotten how to sing They will stay there in their gold frames For forever, forever and a day All the rowboats in the oil paintings They keep trying to row away, row away First there's lights out, then there's lock up Masterpieces serving maximum sentences It's their own fault for being timeless There's a price you pay and a consequence All the galleries, the museums They will stay there forever and a day All the rowboats in the oil paintings They keep trying to row away, row away All the rowboats in the oil paintings They keep trying to row away, row away

[@FallenValentine19]

Regina said in an interview that we have to interpret the song ourselves, there is no right or wrong

[@billsf]

The 7th song promoted off the album!?! - Should be the smash-hit, #1 single, in my book, as someone who has worked in the music industry....,this song gives me weird dreams, cause it's so cool....

[@vonchives]

EDIT I tracked down where she said that, in 2005 there was a live show recorded in L.A. , Hotel Cafe. she doesn't say friend, but "from the POV of some one who wanted to liberate all the art in every museum"

[@finnwebster3052]

Aaaaa this is so different from her other songs! It's lovely nwn

[@vonchives]

When it comes to Spektor, the theories are the whole hook! So many of her songs probably mean something different to me than to Regina or anybody else.

[@PFMediaServices]

This right here is what got me hooked on Regina, a few years before you made this comment. Every song is a story. Even the love songs are stories, without all the details so you can paint your own picture! This one though is the best of them all. ❤️🍍

[@JamesUssupi]

God I pity the violins. That line almost makes me tear up every time.

[@jakobdodd8066]

James Ussupi much feels. many deep.

[@mthomason13]

Oh my God. Just... Oh my God. She's a genius, a true master.

[@binaaax]

Ahhhhhh this song, its written to be so quick wittted, can't even.

[@iraida300]

I saw her in live.. SHES AMAZING♥

[@Bruh-cz8jq]

Me too!

[@TheHG12]

This has to be the best song ever, for both vocals and lyrics.

[@marieblue]

“All the Rowboats” (2012) finds Regina Spektor singing about someone who wants to release works of art from the museum where they are kept. Spektor said that the “Cheap Seats” title was in her mind before she even knew what the album was going to sound like : “I’ve been in all kind of seats , and everything has its beauty, and that’s sort of the whole point of the world - you always get something and you let go of something, and each thing has its pluses and minuses.” The music video was directed by Adria Petty (Tom Petty’s daughter). About her collaboration with Spektor, she stated : “I’m really careful not to be too liberal with her videos because THE MUSIC HAS SUCH A VOICE. It’s just a matter of being able to move through these spaces with her and go on a trip with her as the narrator, without having it proscribe how you hear the song or digest the lyrics. Like a good book, it should be personal to whoever’s listening to it.” 💛🚣‍♀️💚

[@chrisbirch92]

i actually said when i first heard this that if the rest of the album was as good as this song it would become my favorite album and from listening to the others it definatly will be :) so amazing!

[@meganh8646]

Goosebumps, every single time. My absolute favorite song by Regina!

[@moonHMZ]

this and Musicbox. heck, all of Regina Spektor. respekt.

[@alexisrosario9078]

Love this song a lot ! Thinking of making a dance to it.

[@jakobdodd8066]

Alexis Rosario did u ever do that??

[@samueldar3505]

DAAAAAMN I JUST CAN`T STOP LISTENING TO THIS SONG!

[@jakobdodd8066]

samuel dar me too I'm repeating like 4 times at least

[@racksityentertainment]

there's some dark and hip hop vibes to it... 2:30 musical theme is magistral

[@georgekush3327]

i love all kinds of music, i like electrocore. I heard this on David Letterman, and I loved it.

[@jackspraker3542]

Wouldn't life be so much if we all had our own Regina? I thank god for just letting me listen. But I can't help but want to have her.

[@wheelxofxfortune]

This is insanely good. I loved the old version, but this is even better!

[@Jcop42]

When I first heard about this song, I expected it to be typical Regina, a happy little song about rowboats. Then I heard it...

[@ianciti]

would love a metal rendition of this

[@midramas]

Probably going to make one ;)

[@ianciti]

OMG YES!

[@zackaclese]

Why would you want metal this? Like, not being a dick, I'm genuinely curious. What more do you get out of metal that this doesn't give you? I just can't seem to understand the reason, other than that, possibly, you were bad at making friends, but were taken in by metal heads, and so you like metal, even to the point that you lie to yourself, saying that metal sounds better than this, just so you can tell yourself that you are one of the metal-guys, and in so, feel accepted and valued. I only say that because I happened to have experienced it first hand, and now, at 26, I have found and gathered my tastes, none of which ended up to be metal, in the end. So, why do you both enjoy this, and want a metal version?

[@ianciti]

you're right i was bad making friends, but the metal heads didn't take me in, the nerds did, i like metal because i spend a lot of time alone and have spent a lot of time experimenting with metal music and have come to find that i like it more, i found i liked metal whence i came upon Dio whose music i think is really great, if a bit old timey. i would like a metal rendition of this, not to lie and say "yeah i like metal" but because it just genuinely sounds better. it's just my taste

[@ianciti]

zack B as for what i would get out of it more than this, it would simply be more fun to listen to, and more beautiful in my opinion

[@giannaespinoza9679]

love Regina Spektor

[@PetraHerrmann]

That song was so wonderful live.

[@amandafaye84]

Absolutely love her!!!

[@xXBlingiton25Xx]

I

[@ARP179]

This song is beautiful. And her eyes. . .

[@elmundodetodd]

perfect album!

[@RasamiChannel]

At first I was like 'Holy shit ceremonial gangster anthem" then then I'm hooked. Love REGINA

[@Rune2u]

This song is amazing.

[@CarleeD1000]

I love the way her voice curls when she says "Here's your ticket, welcome to the tombs."

[@Jopeal]

I love the way she sings the "marble" line.

[@jakobdodd8066]

John Almanzor sculptured marble, cold and soft as saaatinnn

[@micahsnow346]

Message: "there is a punishment for being timeless," and the rowboats are trying to get away- like people, trying to escape from the constant criticism of their peers. And the boats and their captains get severe sentences for being timeless- maybe that means that nobody will ever forget them, and that is their punishment.They can never change or continue.

[@emkay7704]

Yes! I knew you would like Regina Spektor. I told you to listen to that fantastic song.

[@emkay7704]

Her songs always inspire a different meaning based on the listener. You can take as literally or symbolically as you would like to, and it still has a strongly resonating meaning. I have yet to hear a song by Regina Spektor that did not inspire me.

[@ianciti]

that makes since as she says "god i pity the violins" she can relate to all the past dead singers

[@zackaclese]

That's not the line, but you got close to the meaning, if a bit off. It's "Masterpieces serving maximum sentences. It's their own fault for being timeless: there's a price to pay and a consequence". Analytical Artist, that's true of a portion of her songs, but this one is pretty cut and dry. It's just about how when you treasure something highly, you preserve it, and the preservation works a lot like incarceration. So, she thinks these things should be free to live and die, and finds museums sad, and even calls them "mausoleums", implying that everything within them is dead, and preserved. :)

[@emkay7704]

Actually, zack B I've always interpreted the song differently, which leads me to believe that all people will think differently based on who they are. There is no right way to have a song speak to you.

[@raintearsbloodandink]

pure. genius.

[@gyibvdtuombbn]

She makes the a** word seem like the most majestic and angelic word in the English language.

[@elmundodetodd]

love this song!

[@paxton4506]

Great Song!

[@fungilicious_fern]

Planning on doing my solo to this song. I'm excited ^.^

[@mambaroxa]

WOW! Sooooooo epic *-*

[@lucyboycott3486]

I lv dis!

Had some version on my playlist back at 2016 but, of course, youtube changed it, so, here, added again

[@andomrtoob7338]

this goes unreasonably hard

[@ChickenTuesday]

im am yet to hear a regina spektor song that i don't like.it's almost like she won't put out a song unless it's amazing

[@CourtneyCloud164]

Me too! Its my favorite part!

[@kcsbkk]

This is awesome.

[@Mana_Thief]

Nicely said.

[@crowan2477]

Art singing about art being art that's imprisoned for wing exceptional art.

[@lisaholland7572]

Love this song

[@rosydolphincakesDowney]

i like this!

[@ataraxxi]

This isn't about the titanic or hitler or whatever's being said. It's about how sad it is that wonderful, genius art- especially instruments, supposed to be used in performance- are locked up in art galleries and museums where only certain people can see them, rather than being open for all the public to see.

[@pebbledome]

i dont understand! but i love it!

[@skingofmarshes]

When I heard it I imagined a young girl either on the Titanic and looking at all the relics, and the tone of the music sort of set a more drastic edge that made me think of the last minutes the ship spent afloat. I also interpreted it as salvages of the Titanic that became timeless because they were relics. It was more than a boat from what I was going by; it was the talk of the waves, the worried captain: foreigners imagining the devastation, the preserved "living" dead still in the ship.

[@azhdrake]

Oh, wow. I like this version of this song so much.

[@iraida300]

When i heard this song i thinked about rowboats... Rowboats with feelings trapped in a museum with paintings that also has feelings but no one hears them or believe that theyre alive...

[@TheInkknight]

I think when she says Forever in a Day she means walking through a museum. You're seeing a lot of history in just a day.

[@roguenerd23]

Ink Knight I think she saying "Forever *and* a day," which is a traditional way of saying that something will go on forever, indefinitely, and never end.

[@TheInkknight]

roguenerd23 I dunno, I just looked up the lyric, they might have been wrong.

[@Yaara1115]

roguenerd23 thought so too. Oops? :)

[@zackaclese]

You watch too much Harry Potter. That's kind of what the song is about, I guess. But I never "thinked" about it in those terms.

[@Lzthjt]

At my dance show girls choreo performed to this song and there dance was based on titanic and this song + the dance = perfection

[@EmLeahlie]

I wish that little piano riff lasted forever~

[@TheTrollingAsian]

Death, the prize of being priceless.

[@Mana_Thief]

Isn't it "Immortality the the prize of being priceless."?

[@yarene12]

BRAVO XINFINITE

[@GuitarGuy190]

Wait.. how do you get Titanic from that? I have no idea where you got that information anywhere in the lyrics except for the fact that it says "Boat". It seems to me that it is about timeless art; beautiful pieces that are left unadmired hidden away in museums and not for public view. Although i'd love to hear your interpretation if you could explain it to me.

[@potterlove]

Nope, she can't. She just can't have a bad song, ever.

[@TheKaprys]

Already did a long time ago. ;)

[@elhedibendhraou4708]

Hey, the first 7 seconds sounds like Mozart Symphony No. 25 xD

[@mrsrockworld100]

At the beginning and the end of this song she is actually making that sound with her mouth watch a video of her live :D

[@leahpersonmakevideos]

ahh yes

[@vonchives]

It's actually about a friend of hers who believed art needs liberation from museums. she does not agree but the song is sung from the friends perspective (it seems). somebody please correct me if I'm wrong

[@CptCitrus]

When I think typical Regina I don't usually use the words "happy" and "little". :)

[@deadneutral]

5 now

[@nicpap]

Could do with Serj from system of a down

[@jakobdodd8066]

nicpap DEFINITELY! I can easily conceptualize that duo

[@AlexiosPsy]

The first to comment one more time! Hehe!

[@GuitarGuy190]

It's incredible how a single piece of art can be perceived so many ways. I mean, I don't get your perspective at all. Conceptually yes, but I dont feel that that is what the song is trying to say at all. Yet, I cannot prove you wrong. Thank you for sharing your interpretation. :)

[@2345FOODLUVER]

lol, my mom loves this song. (:

[@MrScruffleton]

*definitely

[@DignityofWrath]

Can someone explain why this has even four dislikes? Doesn't make much sense.

[@ThePinkamina]

This makes me think of nothing but Ib. This is Mary's theme song...

[@CarleeD1000]

Ha. Yeah.

[@Bendu69420]

Ok I get they did this so she could break into American radio, but whats all this keys and drums? She was fine with just her piano =( I miss old stuff

[@pUDDLeyeeyee]

[@rattoppatamatryoshka]

She does say ass in other songs, though. And the statement is still true.

[@purplepoppy07]

LOL it just feels good to say sometimes! what's with all the rude comments :d

[@CaptainSpellingError]

That is almost as good as getting a PhD.

[@greerthecompassgirl2331]

This sounds like the inside of an insane person's head - in a good way of course :)

[@bogskeeter]

I didn't know there was a bad way?!

[@greerthecompassgirl2331]

Touché!

[@jakobdodd8066]

Greer The Compass Girl funny you should say that. I just got released from my 5th stay in a psych hospital and this is the first song I HAD TO listen to. on repeat.

[@bonopop7167]

Greer The Compass Girl It seems there is a relationship between creative genius and madness that may never be fully understood. I was a musician (although I must be careful not to overestimate my abilities) and based my entire way of living around making music and existing within a music community until I decided to get a straight job at age 28. Which is precisely when my troubles with bipolar disorder began. I don’t know, but I surmise, that a true artist must tend themself with great care to maintain the subtle balance between the locus of their creativity, and the madness that could unfold thanks to the tensions between that beautiful mind and the square holes that society seems hellbent on presenting all of us. I can think of no other artist who exceeds Regina’s capacity to dig deep into her uniquely beautiful mind, yet she also seems to maintain a relationship with it that enables her to function within society, and remain happy and sane. Long may she maintain this ability!

[@MeowsyDancer]

No, don't be silly. You win Y!

[@lemnlyme]

this song makes me think of kaz brekker

[@serennaavis]

Is she talking about a time at the museum?

[@echinaceapetals4143]

Everyone talking about the Titanic and I'm over here thinking... Night at the museum... Anyone else?

[@CarleeD1000]

You mean "Here's your ticket, welcome to the tombs," right? I wouldn't know, but that would be an interesting topic of conversation if it's true.

[@jakobdodd8066]

Schrodinger's Zombie reminds me of that Dan Brown book where he went into supposed catacombs under a pyramid in... Italy I think?? correct me if the locale isn't correct...

[@TheKaprys]

Ah, that's what I though. How odd is that.

[@joepeterson1242]

2018?

[@whyrainfallls]

She says Glass, though.

[@reisenbutimyimyum]

mimimamomu

[@ThEbArDoFtOril]

lol my mum shows me regina xD.

[@oyuntakip8464]

19 disliker listens justin bieber

[@JayadevCalamur]

One person didn't pity the violins.

[@dreamdice]

Umm..?