Regina Spektor - Music Box lyrics

Life inside the music box ain't easy
The mallets hit, the gears are always turning
And everyone inside the mechanism
Is yearning to get out

And sing another melody completely
So different from the one
They're always singing
I close my eyes and think
That I have found me
But then I feel mortality surround me
I want to sing another melody
So different from the one I always sing

But when I do the dishes

I run the water very very very hot
And then I fill the sink to
The top with bubbles of soap
And then I set all the
Bottle caps I own afloat
And it's the greatest voyage in
The history of plastic

And then I slip my hands in
And start to make waves
And then I dip my tongue in and take a taste
It tastes like soap but it
Doesn't really taste like soap
And then I lower in my whole
Mouth and take a gulp

And start to

Feel mortality surround me
I close my eyes and think
That I have found me
But life inside the music box ain't easy
The mallets hit, the gears are always turning
And everyone inside the mechanism
Is yearning to get out

And sing another melody completely
Is yearning to get out
Is yearning to get out
Is yearning to get out