Regina Spektor - The Flowers lyrics

The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them away

Some of the bulbs never opened quite fully, they might so I'm waiting and staying awake

Things I have loved I'm allowed to keep

I'll never know if I go to sleep

The papers around me are piling and twisting, Regina, the paper back mummy what then?

I'm taking the knife to the books that I own and chopping and chopping and boiling soup from stone

Things I have loved I'm allowed to keep

I'll never know if I go to sleep

Things I have loved I'm allowed to keep

I'll never know if I go to sleep