Songs
Amplifiers
Description
"Amplifiers" is a song originally composed, performed, and released by Regina Spektor. One of Regina's earliest songs, it was performed live potentially as early as 1998 (exact date unknown, sometime between 1998 and 2000 per Papa's Bootlegs. The song has never been professionally recorded or released. Prior to its live version release on Papa's Bootlegs on 2022-08-26, it was previously unknown. The United States Copyright Office has a piece of music by the name "Amplifiers" registered to Regina Spektor on 1999-05-03, described as "sound cassette + lyrics sheets", indicating a demo of the song does exist.
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Lyrics
People, people
Don’t blame the amplifiers
They were only amplifying
What needed to be amplified
And the stockings
Well that’s another story
Stretched and stretched
Disclosing what was classified
I got another river going
So tell me, tell me, are you proud
People, people
Don’t blame the amplifiers
It’s their job to make us loud
It’s their job to make us loud
Secret missions
We’re all on secret missions
Exorcists, ventriloquists
And the puppets
Well that’s another story
Dysfunctions happen
Strings twist
I got another story going
So tell me, tell me, are you proud
Oh secret missions
We’re all on secret missions
And we’re scared of our sound
It doesn’t matter what it used to be
It doesn’t matter what I used to know
It doesn’t matter that we couldn’t see
But we were driving so slow
We were driving so very slow
Calling all cars
Calling all cars
People people people
People, people
Don’t blame the amplifiers
They were only amplifying
What needed to be amplified
And the stockings
Well that’s another story
Stretched and stretched
Disclosing what was classified
I got another river going so
Tell me, tell me, are you proud
People, people
Don’t blame the amplifiers
It’s their job to make us loud
It’s their job to make us loud
It doesn’t matter what it used to be
It doesn’t matter what I used to know
It doesn’t matter that we couldn’t see
But we were driving so slowly
We were driving so very slow
Calling all cars
Calling all cars
Sheet Music
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Song Facts
Release Status:
Released
Originally By:
Original
Collaborators:
Solo
Alternate Titles:
N/A
Written:
1999-05-03
Demo:
N/A
First Official Release:
First Live Performance:
N/A
Last Live Performance:
N/A
Song Stats
First Known Date:
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Last Known Date:
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Time Between First Known Date and Last Known Date:
Time Between First and Last Performance:
never played live
# of Appearances on Official Releases:
1
# of Times Performed Live:
0
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